NetFamilyNews.orgWith tablets showing up on more and more kids’ holiday wish lists (littler and littler kids!), parents will appreciate any help they can get with keep tablet use safe as well as fun. And there’s help over at TechHive, which reports that Amazon Kindle Fire HD, Barnes & Noble Nook HD, and Apple’s iPad, all [...]
GetParentalControls.org, which tests Web filters, announced its top picks and some filtering trends.
School filtering works better when less restrictive and blended with teaching students how to “take responsibility themselves for using new technologies safely,” said a study by British education watchdog Ofsted I blogged about in February). Educator Tom Whitby and the amazing comments to his blog post, “Deal or No Deal” got me thinking about this [...]
The Australian government is forging ahead with nationwide filtering “despite widespread criticism that it will strangle free speech and is doomed to fail,” reports Agence France Press reports. However, it looks as if all that will be blocked is “Web sites containing criminal content” or child pornography, according to the BBC, the kind of filtering [...]
Parents seem to have a love-hate relationship with parental-control software. “Four out of five parents that use parental control software don’t turn it on, despite being concerned about their children’s online safety,” NetworkWorld.com reports, citing a survey by McAfee computer security company. In other highlights, 52% of parents “admitted they never changed the security settings [...]
Public opposition to the Australian government’s plan to mandate Internet filtering has been growing, but this week the plan “has effectively been scuttled,” the Sydney Morning Herald reports. after a senator withdrew support for the scheme. “The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has consistently ignored advice from a host of technical experts saying the filters would [...]
The European Commission funded a just-completed three-year study of parental-control tools, and the results are now available. With the help of 140 testers (parents and teachers), the researchers studied 26 tools, from filtering to computer security, server- and family-computer-based. They looked at the tools’ appropriateness for three age groups: 6-10, 11-14, and 15-16 (here are [...]
Net Nanny, parental-control software for family computers, has released its latest version (not long after issuing Net Nanny for Macs), and PC Magazine gave the product 4.5 stars and its Editor’s Choice Award. “Net Nanny does everything a parental-control utility should do. It also offers unique features like secure Web-traffic filtering and ESRB-based game control. [...]
US flight attendants really don’t want to become the porn police of the sky. Leaders of the US’s flight attendants’ union (representing some 19,000 airline workers) including American Airlines flight attendants, asked AA “to consider adding filters to its in-flight Wi-Fi access to prevent passengers from viewing porn and other inappropriate Web sites while in-flight,” [...]
It does seem to give new meaning to the term “big brother.” Zscaler cloud filtering is a filtering service for companies (maybe in future school networks, ISPs, whatever?) that intercepts all traffic coming in from or going out to the Web and “scrubs it” for content (and presumably communication) that violates company policy or is [...]
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