UK firm Censorit has been quick off the mark following the recent Byron Review, which looked at child safety and new technology, and spurred calls for more content filtering.
The company has launched a subscription-based filtering service aimed at web-enabled phones, portable media players and handheld games devices, which will let parents protect their kids from inappropriate content.
The phones angle is interesting, since Censorit is targeting handsets with built-in Wi-Fi, which get around the age-restrictions imposed by the mobile operators on their own networks. In theory, say, a child surfing the mobile Web through Vodafone can’t access porn and gambling sites, but if they switch to their phone’s Wi-Fi connection, they can.“Censorit’s solution is the first content filter designed to work on all the devices today’s kids have, and it is simple for parents to use,” says Censorit founder Dan Makin. It blocks a preloaded blacklist of sites, while allowing parents to add their own sites to it. Oh, and it emails reports back to parents of the blacklisted sites that their kids have tried to visit too. The service costs £4 a month, and works with any device that allows web proxy configuration. More info can be found on the company’s website. Meanwhile, there’s more on the gaming aspects over on Pocket Gamer.
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let kids have fun, don’t ruin it!!!
Well its good if u dont want any bad stuff coming up on your iPod and stuff, but it sometimes blocks more than what it needs to
This is very good thanks