{"id":963164,"date":"2025-09-20T11:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963164"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:04:34","slug":"facebooks-ex-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-advice-to-parents-giving-phones-to-their-teenagers-dont-give-them-until","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/facebooks-ex-chief-security-officer-alex-stamos-advice-to-parents-giving-phones-to-their-teenagers-dont-give-them-until\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s ex-chief security officer Alex Stamos&#8217; advice to parents giving phones to their teenagers: Don\u2019t give them until\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s former chief security officer, Alex Stamos, has advised parents to delay giving their children a smartphone until they can handle the responsibility. In a recent interview on the &#8220;Tosh Show&#8221; podcast, Stamos, who also worked as a security expert for Yahoo, stated his philosophy is &#8220;trust but verify.&#8221; In a follow-up email to Business Insider, he even outlined a series of rules he follows with his own children to manage their internet access. Stamos noted that his 13-year-old daughter now has a phone, but he believes it is up to each parent to decide when to give their child a device. He recommends restricting tablets like the iPad to only approved apps and not allowing a web browser until a child is older.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u2019s former chief security officer, Alex Stamos, has advised parents to delay giving their children a smartphone until they can handle the responsibility. In a recent interview on the &#8220;Tosh Show&#8221; podcast, Stamos, who also worked as a security expert for Yahoo, stated his philosophy is &#8220;trust but verify.&#8221; In a follow-up email to Business Insider, he even outlined a series of rules he follows with his own children to manage their internet access. Stamos noted that his 13-year-old daughter now has a phone, but he believes it is up to each parent to decide when to give their child [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}