Google’s New Parental Control App Has a Flaw: Puberty – The New York Times

By Brian X. ChenJuly 26, 2017

The only consensus among parents about the right age for a child to have unfettered access to a smartphone is that there is no magic number.But if you sign up for Family Link, which is Google’s new parental controls software for managing children’s Android phones, Google decides for you. At the age of 13, a child can choose to “graduate,” as Google calls it, or lift restrictions, getting the keys to the internet kingdom and all the good and bad things that come with it.

Source: Google’s New Parental Control App Has a Flaw: Puberty – The New York Times

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