Wow. I understand that she needs space, but I don't think ONE father-daughter day is going to be a massive interference with her social life.

YDI for snooping. maybe that's why she didn't want to go with you.

YDI for snooping any parent that goes through their kids history needs to get their nose out of their kids business and back up their own ass

K, there's a lot of crap in here saying that checking internet history is "over protective" or "too controlling" and I bet not a single one was written by a responsible adult. Ask any law enforcement officer who's been in the field for long and they will not only recommend checking your child's internet history, but also installing other protective tracking devices on the home computers to make sure the kid isn't getting into weird stuff online. This goes for kids all the way until they're 18 and older, as long as they're living at home and still making stupid decisions. If he were reading through her diary, or going through her personal stuff I'd say he deserved it, but checking the internet history on the computer he most likely bought for her, on which she uses internet he probably pays for, is completely reasonable and quite responsible.

going through someone's internet history is the equivalent of snooping through their diary or digging around in their room

What were you thinking by going through her personal stuff? That's horrible, you really deserved it.

Yeah my dad does the same thing. Still. And no, I'm no longer a teenager. I am legally an adult (just turned 21) but my father still feels the need to ask me for my facebook password and phone call logs. I've put a security lock on my phone and he has locked me out TWICE trying to get in. I do not live with him, nor have I since I was 9. Snooping like this is not acceptable. I could see if I lived in his house and he tried to TALK to me first, but just snooping unnecessarily? Those situations never end well.

Installing filters, yes. But filters would not have blocked what she was getting up to. In fact...she wasn't getting up to anything except avoiding her father! that is in no way against the law, weird, or unusual for a 15 year old girl!

aw so many people have been so mean to you! i def think it's a little bit of an invasion of privacy but you gotta do what you gotta do. and don't worry... it's like genetically encoded in 15 year-old girls to hate their parents. give it a couple of years and she'll appreciate the father daughter time and the fact that you took an interest in her life.

I'm guessing most of the people who bashed this father for snooping are younger. When I was 15 I would have agreed with you guys. Now that I'm older I have no problems with what he did. I doubt he was going through her internet history just for the sake of being nosy. He was just checking up on her, making sure she was doing anything inappropriate on the internet, which a good parent should do. I would do the same for my children too.