Privacy experts on kids' privacy

It's an unusual subject for the Washington Post's computer-security expert, but it was probably the school bomb threats that got Brian Krebs writing about kids' privacy, as well as security on a whole different level. "After the fourth bomb threat within a few weeks ["up north" of D.C.], the county sheriff held a town meeting where he urged the parents to check the logs of the online chat conversations of their children to see if any of them had discussed planning the bomb threats." Few of the parents knew how to, Brian reports. He talked to a couple of privacy experts, one of whom is a dad, and - even more interesting than their comments - are all the posts from parents Brian's article elicited. A full spectrum of parenting views. Some of them offer advice (see if you agree) or their own Net-use policies, some just family experiences good and bad. Brian seems to have hit a chord! I hope you always feel free to email me your experiences with kids' privacy online.