This Article Full Text (OnlineFirst PDF) All Versions of this Article: 0270467607311488v1 28/1/4    most recent Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Steeves, V. Articles by Webster, C. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Closing the Barn Door: The Effect of Parental Supervision on Canadian Children's Online Privacy

University of Ottawa

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: vsteeves{at}uottawa.ca.

	Abstract

Empirical data from a large sample of Canadian youth aged 13 to 17 years suggest that, although the current privacy policy framework is having a positive effect on the extent to which young people are complying with the types of behavior promoted by adults as privacy protective, its primary focus on parental supervision is inadequate to fully protect children’s online privacy. Respondents with high levels of either social interaction or identity play are more likely than those with lower levels to divulge personal identifiers and display privacy-risky behavior, independent of their level of parental supervision. High levels of parental supervision, therefore, do not eliminate but merely reduce privacy-risky behaviors associated with social uses of the Internet. As such, parental supervision cannot adequately protect children who have integrated the Net most fully into their social lives, especially given the high premium that children place on the use of the Net to talk to friends and explore social roles.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?