[therein]

This tech existed 30 years ago, just wasn't packaged up for easy deployment. As late as 2012 you could MITM people in your network, even without being the person managing the router. ARP poisoning and mitmproxy or just some intelligent reverse proxy, you could pick up the cookies, URLs, and POST data for all the requests in the network.

[brianstrimp]

Sure, a computer nerd dad could have somehow surveilled me dialling into some BBS with my 28.8 kbps modem, but the number of people in the world that actually did this to their kids can probably be counted on one hand, and they were all psychos.

MITM-ing https google searches with a custom root cert today, man, you don't want to leave your kids any privacy? Do you also have hidden cameras in their bedroom? That's roughly on the same level.

[chgs]

Yet people are fine about their employers doing it

[groby_b]

Because that's with awareness and consent? That's a significant difference.

[hackeraccount]

This is 100% the difference.

That said I think the bar for telling people how to raise their kids is super super high.