Press Release: Commission issues reports on parental control technologies aimed at enhancing safety of Internet

The European Commission has released two reports in the framework of the Action Plan on promoting safer use of the Internet. The reports cover the two main types of technologies currently available to help parents ensure that their children can use the Internet safely - content filtering based on self-labelling and on third-party rating. The conclusion of the reports is that further work is needed to improve existing technologies so that they meet the needs of European users, and make a number of recommendations.

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http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/iap/ http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/iap/

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