Investigating the balance of privacy versus security in a family environment

随着人们对儿童网络安全的担忧与日俱增，父母和照顾者已经转向技术，通过监控应用程序和家长控制来获得支持。然而，父母面临着内在的冲突，既要承认孩子对自主和尊重的渴望，又要经历保护孩子安全的愿望。相比之下，孩子们表示，监控应用程序对他们与父母的关系产生了负面影响，因为他们觉得自己不受信任。因此，目前父母控制的设计导致儿童感觉不到尊重和倾听，而父母则认为他们缺乏作为一个家庭有效地做出安全决定的能力。本研究旨在探讨科技中父母控制的设计如何影响家庭的安全决策，重点关注父母控制的信任、隐私和安全因素以及儿童的隐私权。将采用混合方法，使用定性和定量方法收集和分析数据。这一项目的预期贡献将是开发一种设计，为父母提供更好的机会，在尊重子女自主权的同时，提供适当的安全特征来保护子女。

With the growing fear surrounding children's online safety, parents and caregivers have turned to technology for support through monitoring apps and parental controls. However, parents face the internal conflict of recognising their child's desire for autonomy and respect while also experiencing a desire to keep their children safe. In contrast, children have stated that monitoring apps have negatively impacted their relationship with their parents as they do not feel trusted. Thus, the current design of parental controls has resulted in children not feeling respected and heard, while parents feel they lack the capability to make security decisions as a family efficiently. This research aims to explore how the design of parental controls within technology can influence a family's security decision making, with a focus on the trust, privacy, and security elements of parental controls and children's rights to privacy. A mixed methodology approach will be applied, using qualitative and quantitative methods to collect and analyse the data. The intended contribution of this project would be the development of a design that provides parents with a better opportunity to balance respecting their children's autonomy while also providing appropriate security features to protect their children.