Privacy has been a hot button issue since 9/11, but now it would appear that government surveillance is being joined by another twist on snooping: parents aggressively monitoring their kids’ activities on the Web. This article in today’s WSJ details how parents are using sophisticated new software applications to remotely track how their kids are using the popular instant messaging and chat applications. To a degree, this new focus on kids’ online activities has escalated as a result of the MSN-AOL rivalry in which each company touts their respective capabilities in the realm of parental control features. The article reviews 4 “cyberspy” products in addition to MSN and AOL, including Cyber Sentinel 2.0 and eBlaster.