Security & Privacy

A nonprofit organization called the Family Online Safety Institute is lobbying for president-elect Barack Obama to name a “national safety officer” to serve under the chief technology officer, which Obama is to name soon. The Washington Post reports that this group is requesting a number of initiatives to help fight against online dangers. “Protecting children and teens from the new dangers presented by the proliferation of social networks, blogs, instant messaging and cellphones is seen as a growing challenge.”

But this may not be enough. Nancy Willard, executive director for the Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use said, “Young people who are at the greatest risk online are the ones who are already at greater risk in the real world… We have to stop thinking about Internet safety as a technology issue and recognize that it is an extension of youth risk behavior.”

We at Intego have always taken these issues seriously, and our ContentBarrier X4 parental control software is designed to help protect children from the dangers of the Internet by filtering Internet content by category, and by blocking certain protocols and applications. Parents can have greater control over what their children can access with ContentBarrier X4, and help their children learn responsible online behavior.