A according to new research from the Entertainment Software Association released today, 77% of parents believe that the parental controls available in all new video game consoles are useful. Further, parents impose time usage limits on video games more than any other form of entertainment: 79% of parents place time limits on video game playing [...]
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Filtering company Websense has a blog post that documents a rise in hate and extremist group using social networking: Researchers at Websense Security Labs have also seen a substantial increase in the occurrence of hate or militant content residing on Facebook and other popular Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, Yahoo! Groups, and Google Groups. [...]
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A good story from Parenting.com, with some good advice: TRUST, BUT VERIFY “The difference between responsible monitoring and spying is the ‘Gotcha’ factor,” says Nurit Sheinberg, Ed.D., director of research and evaluation at the Mailman Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. If your kids don’t know you’ll [...]
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In 2007, Congress passed the Child Safe Viewing Act, which among other things required the FCC to examine: 1) the existence and availability of advanced blocking technologies that are compatible with various communications devices or platforms 2) methods of encouraging the development, deployment, and use of such technology by parents that do not affect the [...]
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Last year, Japan announced a plan to provide filters for mobile devices used by minors. From Japan’s Mainichi Daily News: Only one in every three Tokyo middle school students has activated filters on their cell phones that block access to sites considered harmful to youth, a police survey has found. Data was collected from 3,049 [...]
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Parents in the European Union are heavy users of parental control software for their children’s Internet access, a news study commissioned by the European Union reports. 59% of European parents with a child in the home had either filtering or monitoring software installed, while just 31% had neither. The full report is here. The chart [...]
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Nice new effort from my employer to give parents tools for managing computer games launched this week, www.getgamesmart.com Wired has a summary: Microsoft wants to encourage parents to understand the media (specifically videogames) that their kids are so enamored with, and to that end the megacorporation has just launched the “Get Game Smart” campaign. Centering [...]
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Two interesting developments in battle of proxies, the web URL or software used to circumvent filtering software. First, filtering vendor Bloxx released a new survey of both business and education IT admins: Are you concerned that Anonymous Proxies may pose a security threat to your network? The majority of respondents from both sectors agree that [...]
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From C-NET: On Monday, the chairman told the blog Ars Technica that he has revised his proposal for free wireless broadband so that it doesn’t require license holders to filter for porn. Martin said in an interview with the Web site that he has already started circulating the new version of the plan. The FCC [...]
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I recently watched a panel discussion entitled, “Kids & The Wide Open Wireless World,” presented at the Family Online Safety Institute conference in Washington, D.C. On the panel were executives from the CTIA, the GSM Association, Sprint and Verizon. I was impressed by the rapid progress that’s being made in developing parental controls for mobile [...]
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