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Would you use a ‘Santa spy cam’ to scare kids?
It’s the time of year where parents will sometimes do anything to remind their children they don’t want to end up on the ‘naughty’ list.
But the internet has been left divided about the use of a fake Santa spy cam, which aims to ‘make kids behave’ in the lead up to the silly season.
The Elf Surveillance Dummy Security Camera, a product by Elves Behavin’ Badly, looks a lot like a camera you would see monitoring public areas.
At just $9 the cheap gadget is supposed to convince children that Santa’s elves are keeping an eye on them 24/7. It even has a red light to warn them if they are heading towards being on the ‘naughty list’.
The Christmas product also comes with “Official Elf Reports” which parents can fill out and return, marking either ‘naughty’ or ‘nice’.
The internet has been left divided about whether this product is making light of surveillance technology, and is taking the whole ‘naughty list’ too far.
“It’s quite inexpensive, so you can save your money for a child psychologist a few years down the line,” one person noted online.
While manufacturers of the product claim it’s all “light-hearted fun”, Big Brother Watch (a British group formed to campaign against state surveillance and threats to civil liberties) are slamming the spyware.
“Childhood is a time for being both naughty and nice, for learning about how society works, what’s right and what’s wrong,” Renate Samson told The Sun.
“It’s not a time for thinking everything you do is going to be filmed and someone is going to punish you for it.
“This kind of gimmick makes light of surveillance but it’s not a joke.”
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