Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Digital Safety article: Parental Tools

Article: Internet Safety Tools That Can Protect Your Child
Author: N/A
Blog: More Hot News

Main Idea: This article, titled: Internet Safety Tools That Can Protect Your Child (<--click to read) talks about the dangers of the Internet and how you can keep your child, and information safe. This article focuses on parental tools that you can use to limit, or monitor your child's actions online. One example is the parental tool, that blocks certain websites, or keywords, that are searched/accessed. You can also block certain information from being sent. Another parental tool is the keystroke trackers, which log everything that your child types. This is being argued as an invasion of privacy, but most parents use it to catch their kids talking to predators online, or when they are being involved with someone without the knowledge of the parents.

Problems/Issues: The issue tackled in this article is the issue of Safety online, and Information Security. It also faces the issues regarding privacy, when parents monitor their chills online actions.

Solutions: Internet Safety tools are suggested in this article. These may allow websites to be blocked, stop information from being sent (phone number, address, name, credit card number, passwords, etc.) , and log every word typed on that computer.

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