UK children to get right to know if parents are spying on them
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation British children will get the right to know when their parents are spying on them online under a binding code for technology firms, a data watchdog announced last week. Companies must tell children if their products include parental controls to limit access or watch over them and offer an “obvious sign” […]
In Japan, foreign parents lead charge against child “abduction”
Tokyo, JapanReuters A growing number of foreigners in Japan are speaking out against what they say is a little-known but entrenched system that allows one parent in a broken relationship to take away the children and block the other from visiting them. The issue of what media in Japan and overseas call parental child “abduction” […]