As a parent, I have a right to review my childs communications.
If she had been using end to end crypto, it’s likely these communications would have auto deleted.
That’s the thing about end to end: it isn’t just about a stopping surveillance in real time. It auto destructs the message.
That’s makes parental oversight extremely difficult.
As a parent, you have the option to use parental controls to block apps with the self-destructing messages feature. However, other parents may have different parenting situations and styles that do not need this feature to be restricted from their children. Pushing for a feature to be unavailable for all children would infringe on other children's rights and their parents' rights.
> That’s the thing about end to end: it isn’t just about a stopping surveillance in real time. It auto destructs the message.
Those two things have nothing to do with each other. Encryption neither enables nor prevents auto deletion of content.
A separate argument is that kids experiment and do dumb stuff together with other kids. Forcing them to not be able to do so in private without bad actors collecting images seems like a pretty significant sacrifice in human rights. I get the intention, I just think it is very misguided.
I’m reviewing her devices manually and monitoring her connections via router logs.
The two work in tandem. When I see an issue with one I check the other.
Once she shows better judgement, I’ll back off and give her more privacy. She’s very young now, and does need the supervision.