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When family safety monitoring creates ethical conflict

My elderly mother asked me to set up cameras in her house so I can check on her but now I feel guilty every time I look and guilty every time I do not.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Caring surveillance between loved ones can generate simultaneous feelings of protective responsibility and invasive overreach.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The surveillance state?”

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