Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Microsoft researcher tells parents: turn off tracking software

<p>A principal researcher at Microsoft has told parents to stop tracking their children's online activity and "let kids run wild" on the internet instead.</p><p>Danah Boyd, who has worked for Microsoft for five years and has just written a book on the impact of social networking on teenagers, has contradicted her employer by suggesting parental control software is damaging children's development.</p><p>Teens need the freedom to wander the digital street</p><p>Writing in this week's Time, Boyd says children have become "heavily constrained in the age of helicopter parenting".</p><p><a href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/387667/microsoft-researcher-tells-parents-turn-off-tracking-software">Keep reading...</a></p>

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