Generally speaking, it's illegal to use government access for personal reasons. Now if you are talking about civilian parents:
Put TailsOS on a thumb drive. No traces left of your activities once the drive is unplugged.
Watch for basic consumer level spyware on your smartphone.
No vpn. Use Tor either through TailOS on a laptop/desktop or Orbot and Tor browser on a phone.
Don't talk in your sleep.
Get comfortable lying.
I think you do a lot of the same thing current kids whose parents are grooming them to be politicians do, except as a kid you would voluntarily do these things.
Keep your online history crazy clean and consistent. Engage in as a little controversial rhetoric online as possible. Choose your friends and who you choose to engage with extremely carefully. Create a believable, likable, almost too clean online public persona and stick to the story like glue, heck make it more truth than fiction if possible.
Using digital privacy practices is useful, but the parents in this case could still see if their kid is using a VPN or Tor, they just wouldn't know what was being done on those protocols.
Truthfully if the child was going to rebel in any way that actually threaten a nation state, I wouldn't be able to conceive of a way the parents wouldn't be able to figure it out very quickly unless the child were more tech savvy and socio-politically savvy than not just their own parents but the intelligence agencies themselves as well.
Sounds like a cool piece of fiction, just not easy to make believable, at least imho.
Hypothetically, if they are truly professional and in operations rather than being analysts, etc., they would leave work at work but basically be too exhausted to truly helicopter-parent at home. I’m projecting a bit though, because once you become a parent you are exhausted beyond belief (substitute “I” for all those “you”s, heh)
Depends on the generation of the parent too, I think (have they kept up with modern surveillance technologies?). If you haven’t watched the TV show “The Americans” it could be interesting. Set in the 80s but there’s two kid/teen children of agents in it, so secrets kind of start going both ways
Just not tell them things? They've undoubtedly got other things to worry about, and I doubt their superiors would be impressed with them bringing the Awesome Might of The Gubermint down upon their offspring.
Do you assume secret services are constantly spying on their kids?
Idk, I was just wondering like... what if my parents had worked in the NSA, like they could probably pull up my search history.
Cuz they like to cross boundaries like that.
Well, parents can already do that. I think the basic solution is still a VPN. Can't read encripted traffic. Tor would be tempting to say, but a lot of nodes are owned by the government still would be better than nothing. Other than that, use strong passwords, set the browsers to delete cookies on close, use a password manager.
I can't remember if it was local or national news, but I believe last month or so, a police officer was charged with using work resources to creep on his ex.
So, it's certainly possible, but they could get in a lot of trouble if word got out.
In a functioning society accessing private information on someone else would be subject to a proper review system with audits to prevent anyone from accessing information they don't have a very good (legal) reason to have.
So yeah it'd probably be possible in the USA, but in other places they definitely couldn't just pull up your search history.
Even in the US it would be punishable. Morality aside, using a billion dollar NSA malware on a person carries a real risk of getting the malware caught. The NSA might be willing to wear that risk for a high value person, but not for some employees kid.
Purely on a misuse of a valuable asset it would be punishable.
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