New legislation in South Korea requires that spyware is installed on smartphone children phones - yes, you heard right! A smartphone spyware application, "Smart Sheriff" which was developed and funded by the South Korean government was initially designed to block access to pornography and other inappropriate material unsuitable for children's eyes. However, telecommunications censorship Communications Commission in South Korea watchdog last month of the country (KCC) upped the ante, making it mandatory that new phone have Smartphone spyware approved by the government installed. There are at least 14 smartphones spyware applications, including smart Sheriff, who will do the same job.
According to South Korean government data, 80 percent of children in South Korea 18 years and below have a smartphone, and application smart Sheriff spyware has been downloaded about 500,000 times!
smartphone spyware applications like Smart Sheriff allow parents "to monitor how much time their children use their smartphones, how often they use applications and websites they visit." The application is ostensibly to protect children in South Korea of bad language and inappropriate web content, but is this really the main objective of South Korea or is this yet another government masquerading under the guise of protecting children, when in fact it is their ability to spy on millions of users?
the new measure provides that the application of spyware smartphone will be pre-installed on all new smartphones for children under 19, the phones, but existing will be spared. When I cast my eye when I was a teenager the idea of having Smartphone spyware as smart Sheriff, pre-installed on my phone me crazy. In fact, I would not have bothered to own and wait until I was 19. I am 19 Wooo -. I do not want Smartphone spyware on my phone and I do not need a housekeeper
Of course, there are advantages and disadvantages to this new regulation. An obvious pro for parents is to be able to communicate with their children and ensure their safety. But for parents who restrict and possibly mollycoddle their children too, is an open invitation to eliminate the right of a child to freedom and privacy?
Another point to consider, which may perhaps come across slightly Theory- esque conspiracy, but is a teaser of what is to come next in South Korea? the South Korean government could make a law ALL phones come with pre-installed spyware?
In the Western world, many parents install spyware smartphone on the phone for their child (mostly unknowingly), but the difference is that it is their own, the parents' decision it is not a ridiculous law forced on parents. However!
These types of spyware applications can tell a parent all kinds of information, the types of conversations that their child is having with some spyware applications reporting of words such as "sex" "beer" and "pregnancy" the whereabouts of their child.
But what happens if a parent in South Korea does not download Intelligent sheriff or any other spyware applications on smartphone? Well, Techdirt reports that parents who ignore the new law will be harassed by mobile providers to download spyware smartphone.
Article 37-8 (methods and procedures for the provision of means for blocking media products harmful to minors, etc.)
(1) in accordance with Article 32-7 (1) of the Act, a business telecommunications operator enter into a contract on the telecommunication service with a minor under the youth protection Act must provide means for blocking access minors media products harmful to minors under the Act on the protection of minors and illegal obscene information under Article 44-7 (1) 1 of the ICNA ( "harmful information to minors") by via the telecommunication service. mobile communication device of the minor as blocking software information harmful to minors
(2) The procedures required below must be followed when providing the locking means under (1):
at the time of contract signing:
- minor notification and his / her legal representative regarding the types and characteristics of the locking means; and
- Check the installation of the locking means.
After the conclusion of the contract:
Monthly notification to the legal representative if the locking means has been deleted or has not been exploited for more than 15 days.
is this fundamental right of a parent to know where their child is 24/7? Their age is a definite factor, but let's take a teenager, 17 years old. How many parents know where their teen is and what they are up all the time? Admittedly, part of the growth is slowly reduce the apron strings, to venture into the wide world, for the street wise (but not to the point of tearing neighborhoods or getting into all sorts of trouble! ) There is a gradual learning process to explore, mingle with friends, to grow. When placing strict limits, children tend to rebel, especially when they hear "you're not going out" or "you're grounded" and as we often see in the movies, they sneak out of the window of their room anyway. Freedom of expression and the right to privacy p art of your feet research process, and out of adolescence and enter the adult world?
According to the Associated Press spyware smartphone app, Smart Sheriff, is currently only available on the Android operating system - are two ways to escape from mass surveillance, for now at least , is to buy an iPhone, or wait until you're 19.
South Korea is on the way to the production of a new generation of people who fight for their rights privacy, and the expression of freedom - because they never knew these rights ever existed
do you think that spying on children using spyware smartphone as smart Sheriff a good idea, or that it violates their right to privacy? Is South Korea went too far?
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