Parental Controls Round-Up
Ars Technica is one of my favorite sites on the web. They can be very technical sometimes, but when they post something relevant to our topic here at HTH, we’ll let you know.
Today’s link is a write-up they did in response to a recent FCC report on parental controls across all sorts of media. The report is very comprehensive, but the article boils it down nicely. It’s definitely a good read for the parents in the audience tonight.
- Ars Technica: A parent’s quick guide to content blocking technologies
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In a related story, a child-safety software that capture’s IM conversations for parental review has been caught in a bit of a controversy. It seems that the software, sold under Sentry and FamilySafe, was sending those same IM conversations to marketers for market research. Strikes me as somewhat shady…