Monitoring kids safely
TSNC's family monitoring is designed to give you visibility into real threats without turning into surveillance. Here's exactly what each setting reveals — and what it doesn't.
- Monitor for threats, not behavior. We tell you when something dangerous happened, not what your kid was doing.
- No transcripts. We don't record DMs, texts, search queries, or page content.
- Your kid sees what you see. The Activity panel is visible to them too — same data. No secret monitoring.
- Age-appropriate by default. Younger kids get more visibility surfaced; teens get autonomy with safety nets.
What the Family Dashboard shows you
The activity feed surfaces things in three categories:
- Threats blocked — TSNC stopped them from going to a known phishing or malware site. You see the threat type but not the specific URL (so you don't accidentally click it later).
- Suspicious activity warnings — they encountered something concerning (a brand-new lookalike domain, a suspicious-looking email) and TSNC warned them. You see that it happened.
- Wins — they reported a phishing email, completed a training module, caught a simulated phishing test. We celebrate these. So should you.
What the Family Dashboard doesn't show
We want this to be plain so you can have honest conversations with your kids:
- Websites they visit (unless one was actively dangerous and we blocked it)
- Search queries
- Messages, DMs, texts, or any communication content
- Specific files they've uploaded or downloaded
- Their typed passwords (we don't even know them)
- Photos or media they've viewed
- App usage outside the browser
Per-kid protection levels
Configurable per-child protection tiers — birthdate-based defaults and automatic blocking thresholds you can tune per kid — are part of the family product we're still building. They are not available to set today, so don't rely on a specific "auto-block below this trust score" behavior yet.
What every family member gets right now is the same core protection: real-time phishing and malware blocking, the trust-score shield in supported email clients, training courses, and personal phishing simulations. When per-child tiers ship, you'll tune them here.
Talking to your kids about it
The conversation is more important than the settings. Here's the framing we recommend:
"TSNC is a tool that warns us about scams online. It works like a smoke alarm — it only goes off when there's real smoke. It doesn't watch you all the time, and it doesn't tell me what you're doing. If something dangerous happens, I'll know, and we can talk about it."
Then show them their own dashboard — the same one you see. Let them know they can review their own activity, see their own trust score, even raise things with you that confused them. That's how you build the long-term habit, which matters more than any single threat we block.
Alerts you'll actually receive
We try not to spam you. Real-time alerts (email, optional SMS) are reserved for:
- Credentials submitted on a known phishing page
- Family member's email appears in a major data breach
- Account takeover indicators (login from a new country, password change without an MFA challenge)
- Repeated failed MFA attempts (someone may be trying to break into the account)
Routine activity goes into the weekly digest email, not real-time alerts.