This terrifying new Windows 10 feature could ‘out’ kids to their parents

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Computers running Windows 10 could be automatically telling parents that their teens are visiting LGBT support websites – and emailing them details of their sexual fantasies.
The new operating system, which was rolled out last month as a free upgrade for users of Windows 7 and 8, has raised concern over the new ‘activity reports‘ feature.

The feature is enabled by default for users who have set up registered ‘family’ accounts, sending weekly breakdowns of browsing history to the parents – even if the kids browse anonymously or try to clear it.

Once active, the feature emails the parents a weekly summary of all the child’s internet usage, including the details of websites visited.

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This Windows 10 feature may cause a lot of family problems with Gays specifically people who follow religions which are ideology dislike gays.

I think a lot of tech savvy gays will just use Apple or Blackberry devices where privacy is a bigger concern for Apple and Blackberry which claims to protect users data, and privacy.
 
I see nothing wrong with this, if parents are using it in the first place then they have rules in place stating not to visit such sites or do not look at adult content sites. I see this tool being very usefully, especially in schools and the work places.
 
Demon_Skeith said:
I see nothing wrong with this, if parents are using it in the first place then they have rules in place stating not to visit such sites or do not look at adult content sites. I see this tool being very usefully, especially in schools and the work places.
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The article mainly talks about revealing kids as being gay because Window 10 told their parents that they are posting on Gay Forums/ LGBT support websites which are not adult content sites.

I think this tool can be useful as well for parents, but I got a feeling it will make less powerful and cheap computers super slow to use because of the extra RAM and CPU usage used to track everything on the PC like how spyware usually slowdown a PC so much because of all the tracking it does.
 
I have mixed feelings on it.

On one hand, kids are getting into stuff they really shouldn't be. And even if you trust your own kids, can you trust your neighbour's? Or their friends? (A few years ago I had to install a netnanny program for someone because their kid's friend was looking up porn. This kid was like 9...)
Plus, as an aside, if it's a shared computer they kind of shouldn't have any expectation of privacy. (Now if they had their own in their room, that's sort of different.)

But for every time something like this comes in useful, there's also the backhand of it. Some people are going to end up being outed, possibly falsely, because their parents were snooping on them. I mean consider if they were on FP or something and were looking for post packs. They checked out a LGBT site a few times just to see if it was something they could contribute to. They're not even questioning, they're not even considering joining. But then their parents suddenly think they're gay because they visited a website?
Or maybe they found out a friend was gay and were looking things up to find out how to react/be a good friend. Again, not gay themselves, but still getting accused of it.
 
VirusZero said:
because their kid's friend was looking up porn. This kid was like 9...)
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If the kid was looking up porn, it was because the biological functions of early puberty had kicked in, and there is nothing wrong with that. Puberty differs from person to person. For some people it starts earlier than for others. I seriously never understood why people are so reticent in regards to teaching children about sexuality. It is a natural biological response that they will have to deal with, and when that happens, they will freak out ('omg! why is my pee-pee hard?! am I dying?') because their parents are too prudish. I mean, come on, there are 9 year olds who identify as a different gender:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/meet-transgender-9-year-old-boy-who-5915526
 
The issue is that some kids are ready and mature enough... But that still doesn't mean they need to be surfing for porn on their friend's computer.

And as for why people may not want to teach their kids about sexuality... it's not that they can't handle it. It's simply that there's no point until they start asking questions. And even when they're ready for info, I would imagine parents wouldn't want them looking to porn for answers simply because porn is a terrible place to find answers. (Porn is stupidly unrealistic and sensationalized. Plus it leaves many critical elements out. Things like consent and safe sex practices.)

As for transgender kids... Knowing your gender isn't that difficult. Most people have a good idea what their gender is fairly early on. (They may know they don't align with their biological sex but choose not to transition simply due to societal pressure/issues.) but that doesn't mean they have or want to use porn to help them figure it out. So it's not really related to this issue.
 
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