Computers Internet Child Safety

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• Inhope - Internet Hotline Providers   - Providing contact details and resources for reporting online child abuse in many countries around the world.

• A-Better-Child.org - Helping the youth of today prepare for tomorrow. Providing parents, children and teens information on internet safety.
• Be Safe Online - Internet Safety advice for parents, teachers and responsible adults. Encourages child safety through careful online behavior.
• Be Web Aware - Tutorial and tips for parents on the benefits and risks of being on the Internet.
• BrowseControl - Browsing and system management tool, limits user access to websites, protocols, hardware and applications. Limits access based on user, group, time. Remote management capability.
• Buddy Browser for Kids - Secure web browser for kids, available free. Includes kid-safe Internet Messenger, and inbuilt resources for education, gaming and fun.
• Carnegie Cyber Academy - Site created by Carnegie Mellon University that teaches about Internet safety through games and earned awards. Also a resource center for students and teachers.
• ChatProtection.com - Providing safe chat rooms and monitoring for kids and teens.
• CheckIM.com - Provides the ability to trace the location of predators for reporting to authorities.
• Child Safety FAQ - Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about child safety on the internet.
• Child Safety Network - Providing free tools and information to help parents keep their children safe.
• Child Safety on the Information Highway - Put out by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, this document outlines how parents can best protect their children while still allowing them use of the Internet.
• Child Safety-Net - Promotes "Child Safety-Net" book. Site also has newsletter back issues and links, relating to protection of children online.
• Childoscope - Organisation promoting integrated European policies on missing and sexually exploited children. An initiative of "Child Focus" (Belgium).
• Children Online - Offers a variety of presentations and programs for schools, students and parents, on subjects such as online safety issues and solutions, and online harassment. Also offers short safety video excerpts for download.
• Children's Internet Protection Act - US Congress Bill S.97 requiring schools and libraries to introduce filtering software for internet-connected computers.
• Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) FAQ - Providing information for schools and libraries regarding the Children's Internet Protection Act.
• CleanMyMailbox - Service providing web-based parental control of the email coming into children's mailboxes.
• Common Sense Internet Safety Survival Guide - Information to help kids stay safe and smart while using the Internet.
• Content Purity - Free online tool designed to check computer for objectionable content.
• COPA Commission - Information and resources about the Child Online Protection Act.
• Crawler Parental Control - Software to monitor and control your child's software usage and internet browsing, regulate the times when they can use the computer and internet, and hide content on your computer that you don't want them to see.
• Crisp Thinking - Detects 'grooming' of children by online predators by analyzing behaviour patterns including syntax and language style.
• CyberAngels - A resource focusing on Safety matters. Offers guidance for parents, and provides information and solutions to common internet safety issues.
• CyberCop Guide - A downloadable ebook about Internet child safety. Written by a police detective, it teaches parents to protect their children from becoming a victim, or from victimizing others while on the Internet.
• Family Guardian - Provides filtered web access. Client is installed on the user's computer and all traffic is redirected through the FamGuard servers, content is analyzed and filtered or blocked before delivery.
• Family WebWatch - Online safety information and weblog.
• GetNetWise.org - A public service brought by Internet industry corporations and public interest organizations to help insure that families have safe, constructive, educational and entertaining online experiences.
• hoopaa - Offering a free service for concerned parents to monitor children's activities on the internet. Captures screenshots of websites visited, tracks MSN chat and allows website blocking.
• iKeepSafe - Includes safety, security and ethics tools and resources for helping families and educators teach children to use the internet safely and wisely.
• Insafe - Site of the European Union's Insafe network, a part of the EU Safer Internet Plus programme. News, press releases and links concerning Internet safety. Gathers information from the National Awareness nodes involved in the programme. Insafe coordinates Safer Internet Day world-wide.
• Inspect Your Gadgets - Workshops, Seminars and Speeches designed to raise the awareness of the dangers to children and families of the Internet and emerging technologies and provide practical home strategies for parents.
• Internet Filters.net - A list of internet filtering products and comparison data for parents and teachers.
• Internet Safety - Safe Eyes software with internet filtering, monitoring, logging, application control and time controls. Also Ethershield enterprise level filtering hardware.
• Internet Safety at About.com - Provides articles and tips for online family safety.
• i-SAFE America, Inc. - Incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place.
• Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet - Companion site to the book 'Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet'. Shows parents how to protect from pedophiles, pornography, pop-ups, viruses and spyware.
• Kid Innovation - Razzul is a kid-friendly browser, offering access to pre-approved sites and spam-free email. Parents can also review their child's internet usage and communications.
• Kid Print Solutions - Provider of ForensicPrint Child ID Software, a digital ID solution for protection against child abduction.
• Kid Safe Mail - Child safe email experience without spam, pornography or viruses.
• Kid Smart - Practical online safety advice for teachers and parents, with lesson plans, online activities and resources.
• KidMail - Filtered email service, offering graphical mail tools for youngsters. Parents have control over incoming messages, mail from unknown senders can be quarantined.
• KidRocket - Kid-safe web browser works by limiting access to just a small collection of hand-picked educational and fun sites. Simple but effective, offered as freeware.
• KidSplorer - Web browser protecting kids by only allowing access to pre-approved sites, offers additional parental control such as scheduled access times.
• KidSurf - Offering internet browser software designed for kids aged 3 to 9 years. Allows parents to control the websites their children access.
• Kidz Privacy - Educates kids, parents, and businesses about the privacy rights of children online. Site provided by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
• Kidzap - Parent-controlled web experience for children, includes games, safe chat and puzzles.
• KIKS - Keeping Internet Kids Safe - A small collection of articles about online safety topics, as well as some links, and newsletter archives.
• The Librarian's Guide to Cyberspace for Parents and Kids - An introduction to the internet with an emphasis on child safety. [PDF]
• Max - Provides a service to filter a range of online activities including web, chat, email, instant messaging and file-sharing.
• Mousetrap - Provided by the Virginia Center for Policing Innovation, this program is designed to protect children from online predators through parent education online and with a free awareness CD.
• My Kids Browser - Offer web browser software that restricts children's access to white listed sites. Free trial available. Based in Provo, Utah. [Windows]
• Net Family News - A weekly electronic news service to inform and educate parents, families and caregivers of children who spend time online.
• NetAlert - An independent community advisory body established by the Australian government.
• NetID ChatShield - Chat filter that checks instant messaging contacts against a verification service, to prevent unknown individuals from sending IM messages.
• NetIDme - Online real time personal identification system for use within chat clients or internet chat rooms to protect the identities of children on the internet.
• NetProtector - Hardware solution designed to prevent modem access to the internet when parental supervision is not possible, by means of a key-lockable switch.
• NetSafeKids - Companion site of The National Academies report, "Youth, Pornography, and the Internet".
• NetSmartz - Educational resource from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Discusses various Internet safety topics.
• Nippy Web Browser - Free browser designed for pre-school children with peer-reviewed content and support website. Browser hides desktop to prevent access.
• Online Chaperone - Offering parental control software with Artificial Intelligence to help protect children from online predators. Detects predatory behavior in chatrooms and instant messaging environments.
• Operation SafetyNet - The Ohio Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force provides information to help protect families from the dangers of Internet child sexual exploitation.
• Optenet PC - Parental control software to filter internet content and prevent harmful sites and downloads. Can also help to manage time children are spending online.
• Parent Smartz - Learn to monitor your child's online activities and assess potential dangers. Offers safety resources and online classes for parents.
• The Police Notebook - A law enforcement site promoting safety and crime prevention for kids.
• ProtectKids.com - Substantial resource related to making the internet a safer place for children. Contains information, reports, articles, and useful links.
• PsychPage Family Resources - Links to several software products aimed at protecting children online, and blocking objectionable web sites. Includes a few links to larger related sites.
• Safe Chat Universal Messenger - Provides tools to protect children while chatting online, with the ability to approve or block specific sites, keywords, and contacts.
• Safe OnLine Outreach - A repository of information, research, resources, links and media reports regarding online sexual exploitation and internet safety.
• Safe Surfin' Central - Site dedicated to educating children of all ages and parents in the processes of safe Internet usage.
• SafeKids - Contains information about the dangers of children using the internet. Rules, advice, and tips relating to child security and the web.
• Safe2Read Supervised Children's Email - A parent controlled, supervised kids email service for younger children. Children's email can be sent using webmail or an email client and parents can manage the supervision from their regular email address or the web.
• SafeTeens.Com - A guide to teen safety on the Internet.
• Snitch - Parental control software that uses smart algorithms to detect and remove obscene images, movies, and inappropriate internet activity.
• SoftEyes - Monitor and limit computer use by a schedule. See everything, web, e-mail, chat, and instant messages both on and off the Internet.
• Staysafe.org - Educational site intended to help consumers understand both the positive aspects of the Internet as well as how to manage a variety of safety and security issues that exist online.
• Surf Knight - Free web browser specially designed for children. Includes popup blocker, download blocker, site vistitation controls.
• SurfBuddies - Child Safe internet access product designed with total child internet safety in mind.
• Surfing Safely for Children - Page of hints and tips concerning safe internet usage for children, including pointers for parents.
• TechMission Safe Families - Provides free parental control and internet filtering software, online safety and training resources.
• Teenangels - A site featuring the work and activities of a group of teenage online safety ambassadors who educate others about internet safety.
• TheParentsEdge - Offer tools, information, how-to guides, and other resources for parents.
• Web Wise Kids - Teaching children how to make their online experience safe, using an educational CD-Rom game.
• WebWiseKids.org - Supplies Internet Safety tips and games to protect children.
• WiredKids, Online Safety For Kids and Teens - A variety of online safety information, as well as online and offline projects involving organizations like Disney. Aimed at both adults and children.
• Wise Kids - Works with communities, libraries, youth organisations, local education authorities, schools and businesses throughout Wales and elsewhere, to raise awareness of positive and safe Internet use.
• ZooBuh - Email service for families, with a range of parental control features.

• Parenthood Web - Child Safety on the Information Superhighway. (April 19, 1999)