Child-monitoring apps might need a reboot

**Child Monitoring Needs a Human Touch** Pam Wisniewski's origin story slices through the noise of the panic-mongers. In a digital age, stuck in a fifth-wheel at the end of a dirt road, AIM wasn't a distraction—it was a lifeline. That a leading scholar’s journey to understanding technology started with using it to escape isolation, rather than to consume content, reframes the entire debate. The "best" of the internet wasn't about ordering a pizza; it was about finding a future outside a seventh-mile dirt road. This matters because our current generation of monitoring tech is intellectually bankrupt. It offers parents a false binary: total access or total control. In connecting the dots, we're handing over our kids' digital lives to a corporate panopticon of keystroke logs and screen-time reports. This doesn't signal safety; it signals a lack of trust