I am 15, can my parents legally demand my passwords to access my online accounts such as facebook and banking?

who bought the computer

who pays for the internet

who pays for your house

who pays for your clothes

who pays for your cell phone

who pays for the food you eat

who can delete all your accounts -your parents

who can put software on the computer to monitor all your online activities - your parents

sorry, thats the facts. if they bought it, they have all the rights.

hope this helps

I think a fifteen year old is old enough to have a Facebook or Myspace so long as the parent can view the page if needed (like anyone else would be able to do). I don't think the parent needs to have the child's passwords, anymore than they need to read the child's diary. Teenagers need some privacy. I am really turned off by the amount of time kids are allowed to spend online with no supervision. I'm also very wary of letting any kid under 16 have a cell phone, except maybe a pre-paid one with very few minutes to use in emergencies. In my time, we had our own phone lines in our rooms, and we were able to get into PLENTY of trouble with nothing more than that. Most of us had parents who thought we were totally trustworthy, because we were good at making it appear that way. I guess it would really just depend on the child. If I were the child in question, I would just go to the library and open up a new Facebook and Myspace under a false last name, give this info to the friends I know I can trust, remove anything I didn't want my parent to see from the old one, then give the parent the password to the pages I'll never use again. Then, anytime I logged on to those from home, I would delete my internet history, cookies, and temp files. See, I'm still sneaky :p

The law doesn't help you at all and it sides with your parents.

Who owns it is true even in the work place. When you become an adult and use a computer at work, your employer has ever right to spy on everything you do on the work computer. So, even as an adult, in some situations you have little to no privacy on a computer. If you use your own computer at work, they can still spy on the network activity should you plug into their network. The courts have upheld this several times in various cases.

So, back to your problem. As a minor, you have very few legal rights. Your parents are responsible for nearly everything you do. If you download 6000 bootleg movies illegally, you won't get hauled into court. Your parents will. There is more though. There are many predators online who love to take advantage of people. They take advantage of many adults and I'm sure plenty of kids. As a minor, do you honestly think you know more than your parents and in fact many adults who get tricked?

You can complain, pout, throw a temper tantrum, and I'm sure generally try to make things difficult for your parents. In the end, they paid for everything you are using. They are in fact responsible for everything you do. They have every right to put nanny software on the computer to actually make things worse than they are now and they still get all your passwords. Cooperate and just maybe life won't be as bad as you think.

Until you become an adult and pay for your own stuff, you don't get any privacy.

Shadow Wolf

The kid asked a simple question, not to hear a bunch of rants and users acting like primitive wild animals, answer his question, it is kid stuff, jeeez!

You can go back n forth with the yelling and screaming.

You setup accounts (make sure you make some detailed notes of this stuff so you will have a reference)

Setup accounts so your parents can see and do what they want, the good thing is this account you setup will the accounts your parents monitor so you can say whatever you like and your parents will listen and see what type of activity you are up too. These accounts setup will just be a fabrication.

Then setup your own private accounts, do whatever you wish with them.

Concept behind this will be "social engineering" with manipulation but you are not doing so in a malicious way, you are doing so, so you have privacy.

Use social manipulation engineering for the ones for example that have already answered your post, trust me, they know the basics if that, let them see the fabrication of whatever your imagination will create, remember to also remember the realism of all this.

You will have ones like GameDay > having his jealous hissy fit ..

Having two FaceBook accounts is a good thing. by going into settings on your real facebook page, set privacy settings to be all to yourself, make sure everything is set this way and create a circle. By setting up the privacy settings on Facebook, finding a user will be near impossible, just watch, do this and then do searches for you how you would think others would search for you. As for your Banking, well use the concepts above and figure a method out, I just do not have enough details to further assist with the question.

good luck ...

Remember, set all privacy settings to yourself and you will be hidden under Facebook. cretins talking down to you, he is talking about privacy - why don't you chill, slow down, like a cat, go and carry a cat around with you.

Many kids, even the kids that know limited knowledge know a lot more then parents, only a very few rare adults that know what is actually going on.

You people on here, believe somebody should have no privacy until they are 18 years of age. Doesn't matter what he is doing, a privacy issue. do you not get it, privacy, PRIVACY! u lot that complain, whatever the reason for your hissy fits, you people sound miserable. go on and worry about what you do best, being jealous, dealing with your baby you wanted due to your primitive animal ways, some of us are able to understand what privacy means.

Since you are a minor, you do not control what your parents look at, especially on online websites, don't be a brat, if you aren't doing anything bad you would have no reason not to give the passwords.

If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about when they check your accounts.