[Ben Mugged]

Do children have a right to privacy? Do parents have a right to know where and what their charges are doing? What say you?

[Ben Mugged]

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They don't have a right to privacy in a vehicle they didn't pay for.

[stuartcr]

Who pays the bills?

[taxcontrol]

Who owns the car gets the right to say what gets installed.

[Personal Responsibility]

I don't care what the courts say. As a responsible parent, minors should not have any expectation to privacy. I would want to know where they are going, who will they be going with and what time they will get home.

I like the idea of this chip very, very much.

[A knight without armor]

I guess it sure beats actually having conversations with your kid.

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Paige's parents had installed a device in their daughter's SUV

Daughter's SUV ? What did she do to earn it ? Amazing, the sense of entitlement today's kids feel, or are allowed to feel.

[Not A Snowbird]

"I was kind of mad because I felt it was an invasion of my privacy," said the Los Gatos resident, now 17.

News flash, Paige. The only privacy you have is the privacy your parents choose to give you. Embrace the horror.

[Yo-Yo]

The Ronald Reagan School of Parenting: Trust but verify.

[ArrogantBustard]

I felt it was an invasion of my privacy,

Who paid for the car? Who's paying for the gas? Who's paying for the insurance?

[mysterio]

Sure, watch their every move, get them really used to being watched at all times, and then in ten years come here and wonder why they all vote for big brother socialism and don't value freedom. Heck, a large percentage of them already think the government ought to have to approve every newspaper article. Ever wonder how that happened?

[Seruzawa]

My solution is to get a car so crappy that my daughter doesn't dare try to drive it more than a few miles.

[SmoothTalker]

I say that in the long run these parents are doing their kids a disservice. Placing bugs in a kids car won't teach them to act responsably when they become an adult

[mtbopfuyn]

My kid, my car, my cell phone, my computer. Bet your fanny I have the right to check on what my kids are doing. I used the History key on the computer to check before they figured out how to hit delete. Then I went to Spector Pro and told them about it. I've also been known to record telephone calls when the mom antenna goes up, and they know about that as well. They'll be driving soon and I'm planning on putting a device on the car, too. They also know that it's not that I don't trust them, it's that I don't trust what might be on the other end of the emails.

[philled]

"I was kind of mad because I felt it was an invasion of my privacy," said the Los Gatos resident, now 17.

As a minor the only privacy you should expect is that which is given to you by your parents. But, this does set up liberal conundrum time: What if instead of going four miles to a friend's house she went six miles to an abortion clinic? Then would it be a violation of "her right to privacy" as decreed by the SCOTUS?

[misterrob]

If you are under my roof then I get to know where you are. If you are driving my car I get to know where it is going and where it has been.

Don't lie and then go all liberal when you are caught.

[MMcC]

If my parents had put that much effort into spying on me I would have left the day I turned 18 and they would never have heard from me again. Sure parents have the 'right' do do these things, but they are nuts if they try to monitor everything from driving habits, to email, to phone conversations. Let your kid grow up on their own.

[GovernmentShrinker]

No, and Yes. And the notion that a 17 year old has a right to lie to her parents about where she's going in the vehicle THEY paid for is beyond ludicrous. Paige's parents gave her a much-needed wake-up call.

[metmom]

Paige's parents had installed a device in their daughter's SUV that can tell them not only how far she's driven, but how fast and whether she's made any sudden stops or hard turns.

"I was kind of mad because I felt it was an invasion of my privacy," said the Los Gatos resident, now 17.

She's really mad because she got caught lying. If her parents are legally responsible for her, they have a right to know what she's up to.

*HER* SUV? I think I see some of the problem right there.

If she doesn't like the arrangements, she can leave. As long as ANYONE is living in someone else's home, they should abide by the rules of the homeowner. I don't see that any guest has the right to dictate what the people hosting them have to put up with. And that includes kids.

[It's me]

Ah, but the question is, what did Paige's parent's do with the information? Did she have the SUV taken away for a bit? Was she repremanded in any way?