They found that most of them had serious problems regarding the security of personal information, secure authentication and the presence of third parties and known trackers, among other issues. The researchers developed experimental frameworks to systematically evaluate security and privacy issues in dozens of separate parental control solutions, including network devices such as routers, as well as popular Windows applications, Chrome extensions and Android apps.

As the researchers point out in a paper being presented at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference next week, a number of parental control solutions available on the market are insecure.

In fact, they may be even more vulnerable.

Since the spring, parents have often been allowing their children additional screen time in order to get through the pandemic - and this is not necessarily a bad thing, But new research by Concordia students and faculty suggests that children are no more immune from tech snooping than anyone else, even by the products that are marketed to protect them.

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