Parental Control- “Protecting Your Children from Unwanted Contents”

 

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“Protecting Your Children from Unwanted Contents”

Today's parents must face the complicated balances between the advantages and disadvantages that the digital world offers their children, and define the limits of their online activity. Most adults understand that limiting children's access to the Internet could affect their ability to learn and relate, but at the same time it also means exposing children to threats and online content that may be beyond their ability to understand. (Parental Control)

Alert from German consumer organization Stiftung Warentest

As these risks present on the Internet show, the alert launched by the German consumer organization Stiftung Warentest, indicating the presence of pornographic content or content in defense of Nazism in more than a dozen applications for mobile phones aimed at a child audience.

Virtually all the games in which these inappropriate messages were detected are free to access and easy to download, both on Android and IOS. Among them some extremely popular ones like Minecraft, Brawl Stars, Fortnite or Clash of Clans, all open for users over 10 years old.

One of the games, purportedly intended for children as young as six, invited players to execute people, in some cases with the text suggestion to "kill bad Jews." According to Stiftung Warentest, within these online games appear accesses to pornographic pages and messages from other players who act with user names such as SiegHeil - an employee for Hitler.

Harmful content has been found in most of the apps analyzed

The analysis of these fourteen applications has shown that, in at least thirteen of them, there is content that is “worrying ", “inadvisable "or directly “unacceptable ". In the same way, from this organization - one of the most prestigious in Germany - they point out that the explanations prior to access related to data protection are completely incomprehensible for a child audience.

Home security

Cases like this illustrate the importance of having professional security software with Parental Control available for all devices, helping all family members to safely navigate the digital world. In the same way that children are educated on home safety rules, you must also learn to use a security system on technological devices.

In addition, Parental Control allows you to manage what minors find in search engines, filtering everything that may be inappropriate for children, depending on their age and stage of development. This allows you to block adult content and images on explicit videos and websites that might appear in search results.

Today all consoles come with Internet access, allowing users to network and surf the web, make purchases in the app store and interact with other players. Although these features can make games more fun, you may not want your child to have access to some of these features. Parental controls can also block certain game functions that your children can access. Parental Control allows you to configure different user profiles by deciding what functions each has access to, allowing you to control what they can do while using the game.