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Here’s an article from the San Diego Union Tribune, that suggests among other things parents look to parental controls:
By now you’ve probably heard all about the recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, which found that kids between 8 and 18 years old spend as much as seven hours and 38 minutes a day — yes, a day — using some form of electronic media, whether it be watching television or using other devices like computers or cell phones. Because so many kids multitask and use more than one medium at a time, the Kaiser study found that today’s children are actually able to cram 10 hours and 45 minutes of media content in each day — yes, each day. The bad news is that all this media consumption might have some negative effects. The study found that nearly half of all heavy media users reported subpar grades of mostly C’s or lower. Only 23 percent of light media users said their grades were in the mostly-C’s-or-lower range.
Most Internet parental control products offer a time-management feature, as do the operating systems of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OS X. Many mobile phones, including those offered by ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon offer this feature, but X-Box 360 is the only gaming console that does. Not all of these controls are created equal, though as some can be fooled by simply resetting the system clock. Others time management controls are not very flexible and only allow you block whole hours, not smaller increments.
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Common Sense Media recently posted a great article citing Norton’s top 100 searches done by kids.
Of the top 100, I was not at all surprised by what was searched, but I have to admit that I was quite surprised how highly ranked some of the search terms were – especially ’sex’ and ‘porn’.
There are things you can do to help mitigate your child getting to search results that are not age appropriate. The article mentions several and AOL Parental Controls can also help.
This article made me think. Thankfully, my daughter isn’t old enough for the computer, but I am not sure how I would react if I discovered she was searching on these terms. Now that you read their article – what (if anything) will you change about your online habits at home?
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Internet safety has always been at the forefront of ContentWatch’s mantra. But while technology can help ensure a safe online experience, communication, education and good parenting are truly the keys to their safety. In other words, involved parents are the…
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The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act requires prior parental permission before a company can collect any personally identifiable information online about a child 12-years-old or younger.
The law dictates what counts as “personally identifiable” and companies work within this law. There is a recent controversy about the collection of children’s chat discussions through parental control software. I will note that not all parental control software collects this information. For example, AOL’s Parental Controls does not track what a child says, only where they go and with whom they communicate with via AOL mail and AIM.
Assuming the risk of exposing personally identifiable information is gone, what are your thoughts about parental controls collecting information from chat to sell to advertisers?
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