The Bark parental control app helps parents monitor and manage their child’s online activity. Bark’s focus is for keeping them safe from online threats such as inappropriate content, online predators and cyberbullying. While most parental control applications are designed with these protections in mind, they are all a little different in how they do it and what devices and operating systems they are best used for. In our effort to empower parents with the tools they need to protect their …
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Those tasked with stopping child predators from exploiting children are doing important but extremely painful work. According to a recent story from the Daily Oklahoman, the OSBI has seen an increase in the amount of internet …
Business technology provides companies with Mobile Device Management tools that they use to protect their corporate devices from all kinds of threats. Those tools include content filtering to prevent inappropriate content from being accessed on business …
I know that I’m not, but sometimes I feel like I am the lone voice out there trying to bring attention to the issue of protecting children online. In this episode of Speakeasy Security from ESET, …
As of this writing, Microsoft Family Safety, doesn’t offer much for iOS devices, but Microsoft still has a lot to offer families. Many, many households have a mix of device platforms. If your family has any …
As I have said countless times, a layered approach is the best way to protect children from harmful internet content. The base layer should be controlling DNS, something that is fairly simple to do for the …
Regardless of what games, apps, or social media you allow your kids/teens to have, too much of anything can have negative effects. Some of these negative effects can be depression and isolation which can have tragic …
On May 8th Net Nanny® rebranded their Zift mobile protection application to Net Nanny® 10. That was probably a good branding decision since Net Nanny® has been a leader in this space for years and the …
Protecting children from online threats isn’t easy, but parents often make it more difficult that it needs to be. Implementing safe technology in your home starts with making safe technology the number one priority for all …
CleanBrowsing was started by parents in the technology industry who appreciated what OpenDNS was doing for families but saw the need for some additional features. This quote from their website perfectly describes the problems with so …
Dr. Jeane Twenge, Professor of Psychology and author, was a guest on a recent episode of the Laura Ingraham Podcast. She shared good information about the effects that social media and phones have on our kids. …