Comments on: McAfee: 63 percent of teens hide what they do online; 11 percent disable filters http://davidburt.us/2008/10/22/mcafee-63-percent-of-teens-hide-what-they-do-online-11-percent-disable-filters/ David Burt's website Thu, 03 May 2012 02:55:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: VJ http://davidburt.us/2008/10/22/mcafee-63-percent-of-teens-hide-what-they-do-online-11-percent-disable-filters/#comment-793 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:19:34 +0000 http://filteringfacts.wordpress.com/?p=474#comment-793 “I wonder how many teens are really using proxies, because I suspect the number is small, but to date, there has been no empirical research on how widespread the use of proxies to defeat filters by teens really is, so we don’t know. ”

Actually this is not true

I-Safe did a study in school year 2006 where 170,000 students completed assessment surveys.

The findings revealed:
- Males in grades 5-12 are more likely than females to have circumvented internet filtering software via proxies in school (22% to 16%)

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