No Phone Privacy here!

I read a lot about privacy and write a lot about privacy too. Privacy is an important aspect of our lives and we want others to know limited information about us as much as possible when we are online. As an example, we don’t want others to know our location, our gender, our favorite color, our first name, our last name and any other important point of us unless they really need to know it when we are online. Silent tracking of a person when they are online, by making note of their choices and catering advertisements to them is creepy and quite scary. The scary part is being invisible online and observing others surreptitiously.

We have privacy laws in various countries trying to safeguard the privacy of various citizens.

With so much of privacy talk, let us talk about the privacy of phones itself in a house. In a house, is each person’s phone only “theirs” or do others use it as well? No absolute privacy is my experience generally and from talking about it with others.

From experience, when my children were young, they couldn’t have a smartphone, so we mothers had their class Whatsapp groups on our phone. Sometimes, there was not one but several Whatsapp groups for different groups and classes. So, as parents we had to be involved in their homework and extracurricular activities by being in groups for them. And they were involved with our phone 🙂

So, a mother’s phone was always like a public property in the house 🙂

If the first child had a doubt, they picked up their mother’s phone and started looking for answers from their classmates through the different groups 🙂

If the second child had a doubt, they picked up their mothers phone and started doing the same thing!

So, in due course a mother’s phone became a common phone for everybody!

Of course, they were young, so, they didn’t look much into of the other groups and browse or seeing other thing on their mother’s phone

Soon, they grew up and got their own phones and the redundant Whatsapp groups were removed from the mother’s phone.

But the habit of always looking into a mother’s phone continued and there was no concept of “privacy” for a mother’s phone.

Suddenly, all privacy laws and rules took a hit when a mother’s phone came into the picture.

Of course, it doesn’t have to be a mother’s phone in the house all the time. There are some family members phones that are mostly public and some family member’s phone that are extremely private 😉

As long as the phone privacy rules are followed when outside the house and the safety and security of the phones is safeguarded perfectly when outside, it should be fairly fine.

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