Derecho A La Privacidad En Los Ninos

As time passes, we realize that everything around us has changed really quickly. Every day, children, youths and adults are faced with new things. One of them is the technology to which we are exposed day by day, and children are the most open to new things, including social media like Facebook. Even smartphones allow access to the internet and allow sharing photos. Children love technology too, but parents are worried. All the new technology makes us as a society wonder if our children have a right to privacy or not.

Children can have privacy, but not completely. The different reasons why children cannot have complete privacy at all are many. First of all, children do not know the difference between right and wrong. As time passes, they are learning the difference of these terms. They are like sponges, absorbing everything without knowing what is good or bad. For this reason, it is very important to be alert and know what they are doing in their everyday life. Children do not really know what they want, and they change their minds every day.

Second, teaching them that the right to privacy will be gaining with responsibility and in one way or another with confidence. Our children, as pointed out above, are exposed to a myriad of things these days including computers with internet and cell phones to which our children have access easy. Children, in one way or another, cannot be entitled to one-hundred percent privacy when using this type of technology. Why? It is very easy to say because now with this technology we can have access to everything. It is necessary to know what children see on the internet, with whom they exchange text messages among other things. If we let our children have one-hundred percent privacy, they are going to do whatever they want without following rules. At the same time, they can talk with people who do not have good intentions and can learn worse things that may impair their mental and physical health. Thanks to the internet, we have access to everything, from how to create a gun to, in the worst case, harming another person, something that certainly parents should be vigilant about.

Last, children may not have privacy for their own protection and safety. Returning to the theme of social networks, children are easy to manipulate. It is important not to give to them privacy at all, since the safety of children and family in general could be at risk. It is not a fact that social networks provide privacy for those who use them. Social networking is dangerous because we can know all about the life of a person. The more people know a person, certainly the more is vulnerable: we need to think about the harassment of a pederast or cyberbullying, among others. Protecting privacy in general and on social networks in particular needs to be an important issue to talk with our children who today are using all these technologies at young age. On social networks, unfortunately, children and adolescents exchange

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