Privacy in Young Adults
When protection feels like surveillance, who defines privacy?
4.1 (12)
42 mins
Discover the generational clash over privacy in a world where everything is shared yet nothing feels private. Explore how well-meaning parental surveillance can limit teenagers’ freedom to grow, leading both sides to rethink what safety, trust, and personal boundaries mean today.
Ep 1:
The Privacy Paradox
Host Janice Briggs kicks off a hard look at modern parenting, questioning why tracking apps have become normal and how kids see privacy in ways parents can't imagine.
Ep 2:
The Watchful Home
One-to-one laptops, sleepless phone habits, and shocking surveillance statistics reveal how deeply parents monitor teens—and why fear, not evidence, drives the tracking.
Ep 3:
Tracking, Trust, and Teens
Real teens speak out on hating monitoring yet embracing geo-tracking, while stories of backfired trust show how surveillance can create the very secrecy parents fear.
Ep 4:
Who's Really in Control?
As kids become tech gatekeepers, parents grapple with an inverted power dynamic and the blurry line between 'Small Privacy' among friends and 'Big Privacy' in the digital world.
Ep 5:
Sharenting and Its Shadows
Parents violate privacy too—sharenting exposes kids without consent. This episode examines the ethics, gendered judgment, and hidden costs of posting your child's life online.
Ep 6:
Building Trust Without Surveillance
Teens have always sought space from adults, but today's constant digital surveillance leaves little room to hide. The finale asks: can we trade tracking for trust?
Discussions (10)
Cathy
Level 2 · 9 mo agoPhone on chest is real 💀
Howard
Level 8 · 8 mo agoThe surveillance creates a meta where the optimal play is deception. You aren't increasing safety. You are just buffing their Stealth stats instead.
Sawyer
Level 4 · 8 mo agoCalling it a surveillance state is absolute bollocks! It's called parenting for Christ's sake!
