{"id":4955,"date":"2008-03-17T02:50:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T21:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2505"},"modified":"2008-03-17T02:50:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T21:20:01","slug":"open-letter-to-harlan-coben-re-spying-on-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-harlan-coben-re-spying-on-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Harlan Coben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Harlan Coben<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/16\/opinion\/16coben.html\" title=\"The Undercover Parent -- Harlan Coben\">Don&#8217;t be silly<\/a>. Kids tend to be smarter than their parents think they are. If you put spyware on your children&#8217;s computers, two things will happen. One, they will detect it&#8212;and perhaps put malware on <i>your<\/i> machine. Two, they will resent your intrusion for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I understand your desire to protect them. But before thinking of the damage the rest of the world might do to them, think of the damage you would cause by betraying their trust.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><i>More open letters <a href=\"\/category\/Letters\/\" title=\"Open letters on India Uncut\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Harlan Coben<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/16\/opinion\/16coben.html\" title=\"The Undercover Parent -- Harlan Coben\">Don&#8217;t be silly<\/a>. Kids tend to be smarter than their parents think they are. If you put spyware on your children&#8217;s computers, two things will happen. One, they will detect it&#8212;and perhaps put malware on <i>your<\/i> machine. Two, they will resent your intrusion for the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, I understand your desire to protect them. But before thinking of the damage the rest of the world might do to them, think of the damage you would cause by betraying their trust.<\/p>\n<p>Regards<\/p>\n<p>Amit Varma<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p><i>More open letters <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/categories\/category\/Letters\/\" title=\"Open letters on India Uncut\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dear Harlan Coben - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/open-letter-to-harlan-coben-re-spying-on-kids\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dear Harlan Coben - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dear Harlan Coben Don&#8217;t be silly. 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