Summary Of The Undercover Parent By Harlen Coben

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In Harlen Coben’s, The Undercover Parent, Coben argues that spyware should be applied to the computers of children, I disagree. Coben claims that spyware will let the parent protect the child from himself/herself by monitoring every technological footprint the child makes. Coben states, “Loving parents are doing the surveillance here, not faceless bureaucrats…Today’s overprotective parents fight their kids’ battles on the playground…yet when it comes to chatting with pedophiles or watching beheadings or gambling away their entire life savings...then their children deserve independence?” (Coben 1). Coben says that parents already surveillance their kids, relates them to faceless bureaucrats, and calls them overprotective. He also vocalizes