Family Safety vs Privacy: Ethical Approaches to Child Location Monitoring
Families in the present time have a very delicate balancing act between the safety of the child and the privacy rights of the individual. There could be no doubt that the location tracking technology had advanced by leaps and bounds, making it very easy to track someone over several digital means and devices. Difficult decisions have to be made by parents to determine if and when monitoring is actually serving legitimate safety purposes and when it crosses a line into excessive surveillance that could actually be harmful to trust and development.