Parent Disrespecting Online Privacy.

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Or if theres only one account on the laptop

I'm sorry, but where did anyone say an account was hacked? They referenced doing a Google search of the father's username, and that they did not go looking for the user history but that it came up when using Google. Not sure where your line of approach came from.


M.

You need an account to do a google search?

No you do not need an account to do google search. I heard there is a way to keep your username from showing up in the search engines but I forget how it's done. It's a setting on your computer you have to do. My ex liked his privacy so he always had the feature turned on. He didn't want anyone searching what places he goes to. Good thing about this name I have is it be tough to find what places I go to under this name because a bunch of results would show up with Spokane in it and anything that says "girl" but it still shows what places I go to.

I don't understand how your privacy was violated?

As a matter of fact, using google to find stuff you posted in a public place is not really a violation of privacy.

I know you weren't violating your father's privacy consciously. I am just saying that if you want to respect his piracy, next time you should use for example "FirefoxPortable" so that you don't mess with HIS search history, or also suggest him to open a guest account for when he is lending people his laptop. Or make him one.

I stll don't get how her privacy was violated by her father. She used her father's computer and he checked to see what she did while using his computer. I don't see her privacy being violated by that. It's a given that you give that up when you use someone elses computer.

Now, for nothingunusual to go onto her dad's computer and start snooping around his browser history and what not, is a violation of his privacy.

I guess I agree with ya, Vexcalibur. I guess next time I should actually read what you wrote

Luckily my parents are far too internet-stupid to do such things (and I've never used their computer or had them use mine, so they don't even KNOW my SN's), but I've had other people do this, and it bothers me TERRIBLY.

Like the OP, I'm not doing anything I'm ashamed of, but I have a really over-the-top sense of privacy, and I don't like my boundaries being disrespected at all. Snooping is one of those ultimate-disrespect things, right up there with cheating. But since people just don't have respect for ANYONE these days, why should I or anyone else think we're going to get it?

There's no excuse for snooping on someone - child, lover or whatever. It's one of the best ways to destroy trust and respect.

My parents were constantly looking through my things, reading my letters and so on. After I moved out, I kept feeling the compulsion of hiding anything I considered private around the house, although I was living alone. Took me years to grow out of that.

Let's see if I have this right ... your dad uses his computer to search the public Internet for instances of your username and you call it an invasion of privacy.

You are wrong.

The Internet is wide open. The only privacy to be had is in a private chat room, and even that is not guaranteed. There is no invasion of privacy in a Google search of anybody's name. Your profiles are intended to be read by anyone who knows your username, and it just so happens that your dad knows this, and exercised his right to read what's been posted in public view.

I'm sorry to have shattered your illusions, but that's reality for you - it often intrudes upon ignorance and assumption.

The first occurence of such claim is your post.


You got it backwards. Let me see:
- First, her father googled her user name, since google can only crawl on public places, her father could only find information that's already public, so there is no violation of privacy.
- Then she was borrowing the parent's laptop, and accidentally saw the father's "search history", this is private information, and that the user was not aware that he was leaking private information does not make the act of seeing it any less of a violation of privacy. Of course, it was accidental.

- So, I find this thread interesting and ironic in a way... I just hope everyone remembers this when they are borrowing someone's laptop, now you know the person's search history is private info, and you should not cross that line, specially if you don't like people snooping around your stuff, always make sure to give the rest of the world the treatment you wish.

Actually, that would be the first instance. That the parents were snooping online, despite the public nature of the information, is a little disconcerting as opposed to simple direct communication. That a search history popped up when using another persons computer is not something one can control, nor can they necessarily install other software to avoid the possibility. At my store, if someone starts typing into Google or the address bar, previous histories will come up - yes, I know there are settings that can be changed but we use it as a monitoring method as well. The expectation goes both ways here.


M.