Thursday, January 13, 2011

Brussels casts doubt on the effectiveness of parental controls

A European Union report cited by several French newspapers and published this week claims that parental control systems are not efficient. Designed to prevent access to sites not recommended, the report says they are pretty good at filtering out pornographic sites but do not prevent access to sites that "encourage young people to get hurt" as those promoting anorexia, suicide or self-mutilation.

While 20% of the sites should be blocked are not, the filters mistakenly prevent access to websites perfectly recommended for children. The study also shows that filtering systems are operating some contents that are created in social networks, instant messaging or Internet telephony systems.

Child education specialists have always maintained that these blocking programs are not sufficient and that the best way to ensure that your child does not harmful Internet navigation is that the right with his parents. A site keeps up to date information on the range of parental control programs in which language can be selected, the device (computer, mobile or console), operating system ...

The report appears when the United Kingdom, the government plans to force the default operators to block access to pornographic sites and should be the customer who wants access to them who will have to ask the operator to lift the filter in your account . The report highlights the lack of control systems for mobile telephony when 31% of European children access the Internet via a mobile phone and 26% did so from a console.

Currently, 28% of parents block sites or filter access to their children and 24% monitor the sites you've visited.

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