How many children do you have? And how many times have they caused threatening letters from ISP's to be sent to your house for downloading copyrighted material? How many times have you intercepted drugs in your mailbox that were bought off the internet? How many times have you had to worry that one of these days their social activities were going to catch up with them finally and get them into real trouble?

For the record to all those that replied, I never actually spied on my children through a web cam hack. I said in my comment that I had been frustrated enough in my life that had I read this article then I may have considered it.

And, no, children living in my home using my internet connection are not entitled to the same level of privacy that you and I are. Just as they are not entitled to drink, drive, vote or join the military. They need boundaries and guidance. To the extent that they are doing well in school and socially and leave me little room to worry I'd guess they enjoy more freedom than most of their friends. When they abuse that trust the reins get drawn in and you can darn well bet I'm going to do everything I can to make sure they don't get into further trouble.

And less you draw any conclusions about the twenty-something I mentioned, I was speaking about when she was a teenager and living at home, I didn't try to block or monitor her habits once she became a well rounded adult who looks back on her own behaviour now that she's also a parent a bit sheepishly.

I'm sorry, I definitely read more into your post than is there. I've found that abusers often use more legitimate overt goals as narrative cover for covert abusive techniques. "Protecting your children from things" is often a pretext for fulfilling the parent's need for control and dominance. Or for a more graphic example, people who handle their anger or frustration through physical abuse will claim that they spank their children for disciplinary reasons.