This paper examines the new regime of domestic surveillance with a particular focus on how promotional and media discourse posits the young girl in need of safe technological spaces，using the example of the mobile phone that utilizes GPS or biometric technologies to monitor，control，track，and otherwise contain young people’s communicative practices.The protected child may indeed be an intrinsic facet of middle-class millennium parenting in North America，exacerbated by the sheer intrepidness of many young people’s use of social media for self-expression，communication，and the creation of fluid identities and autonomy outside of parental or school-based boundaries. That young people are avid users of social media including social network sites （SNS） such as Facebook，as well as enthusiastic mobile phone users can be troubling for adults who find the literal mobility afforded by these technologies threatening.In North America，a veritable industry has developed to allow parents to surveil their children，under the guise of protecting them from peer harassment or influence，sexual predators，strangers，or sexual exploration. That the discourse disproportionately focuses on young girls is not surprising. Generations of adults have demonstrated particular concern regarding the influence of new technologies on young women’s access to sexual knowledge and their ability to interact with the opposite sex，whether it be fears emanating from the telephone at the beginning of thetwentieth century，film in the 1930s，or the popularization of the internet in the mid-1990s （Shade “Contested”；Cassell and Cramer）.I argue that girls’ studies scholars need to critically assess this public discourse and its gendered dimensions and reconcile the protectionist rhetoric with the reality of the very active roles young girls are assuming as consumers and creators of digital and wireless communication <<