Memes

I'm 17, and at least on my windows PC, every search I make is reported. Every setting I touch is reported. Every app I use, and how long, is reported. Every startup and shutdown is reported. Games with chat features are banned. Online games are banned. And every week on Sunday, an email with all this goes to my parents, and my dad forwards it to me as a kind of intimidation that "we know all"...

And yes, they use geofenced tracking too.

But I'm a geek, so my Linux laptop and phone are no longer bugged (my only access to other people).

Still have to turn the tracker on so they don't ask why the location pings stopped though.

17... this kind of obsessive control ought to be illegal. I propose privacy rights at age 16, enforcible by fines, with a safe hotline for those with obsessive parents. They're emotionally abusive too, control by external restrictions is often only part of the story in cases like mine.

I'm all for safety filters, but parental controls that can be classified as spyware have no place in a parent-child relationship after the age of 16...