Nursery World - Who is watching?

While reading the 15 January issue I saw an advertisement for NurseryCAM, which gives parents the chance to view their children at nursery via the internet. Having visited the company's website, I have read its assurances that each user has to go through a strict security process before being assigned a unique password account, and that the people who would be viewing the children would be the parents of the children attending the nursery and their extended family.

Having visited the company's website, I have read its assurances that each user has to go through a strict security process before being assigned a unique password account, and that the people who would be viewing the children would be the parents of the children attending the nursery and their extended family.

But where does the extended family end? There is nothing to stop account holders from innocently showing the live video link to friends or colleagues whom they may think they know well. Recently a friend of mine was not permitted to take photographs at her daughter's nativity play because one parent objected. That parent obviously had concerns as to the people these photographs might be shown to.

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