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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I’ve just added a bunch of new research and policy papers to my comprehensive Index of Research and Policy Papers Related to Filtering Software. There are nearly 100 papers here going back over ten years. A big thanks to José María Gómez Hidalgo who has put together a CiteUlike list of academic research related to [...]
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Interesting study released by McAfee finds: 63 per cent of teens said they know how to hide what they do online from their parents. 43 per cent have closed or minimized the browser at the sound of a parental step, 32 per cent have cleared the browser history when they have finished using the computer, [...]
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Yesterday the Australian Communications and Media Authority released the “Closed environment testing of ISP-level internet content filtering – a report“. “This report presents the findings of the closed environment testing of ISP-level filters conducted in 2008. The trial was conducted in response to a ministerial direction received in June 2007. Among the report’s findings: • [...]
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KidZui, an ambitious “Walled Garden” of 600,000 approved websites for kids, has announced it will now begin offering much of its content for free, The Washington Post reports: KidZui is a kid-safe browser made available in March for those willing to pay a monthly subscription fee ($5/mo to start and $10/mo thereafter). For whatever reason, [...]
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A study just published by the UK Office of Communications finds this: More than half of all households with internet access have no blocking software or other controls over online access. The number of households using such safety provisions has declined since 2005, both for households with 8-11 year olds (55% down to 50%) and [...]
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Interersting post from the 8e6 blog on proxies. I added 8e6′s blog to my blogroll, as well as Websense’s. 8e6 says: Well when it comes to your web filter and secure web gateway, the primary circumvention method your users are going to use is proxies. If you’re not familiar with the issues surrounding proxies, this [...]
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From a new survey by filtering company Clearswift: · 64 percent of U.S. companies deny their employees access to social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Bebo) · 54 percent of HR decision makers have encountered or have had to discipline employees for time-wasting on the internet · 14% have had to discipline staff [...]
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