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5 Cyber Patrol: A Major Filtering Project
5 Cyber Patrol: A Major Filtering Project
Pages 23-32
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Web filtering products either block or allow access to Web sites by 23
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Technologies work for us in the research process, but they do not replace human review, which verifies that the content on a page is about, for example, a marijuana joint and not the Joint Chiefs of Staff, or that a woman in a picture is not wearing a tan bathing suit. We need human reviewers to make sure that content really is inappropriate.
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We do not plan to add this technology to the home filtering products, although we use it in research before the reviewers look at something. We see a trend, especially in institutional settings but also in homes, toward managing access to the content that people actually are trying to see as opposed to having huge category lists of which employees are trying to access only 1 percent.
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Cyber Patrol for schools focuses on blocking Web access, and it goes through the Microsoft proxy server, Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000, or Novell Border Manager. We incorporate elements within the software that address the whole scope of what parents are trying to do to protect their kids.
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As a company devoted to protecting kids from inappropriate content, we will not publish a directory of dirty sites. We do not filter URLs or Web sites by keyword, which is an important point.
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3David Forsyth argued that it is easy to determine whether a dishwasher works because the plates either come out clean or dirty, but it is difficult to tell whether Cyber Patrol works, so the choice issue becomes problematic. Milo Medin noted that the average housewife is not likely to figure out the difference between good and poor dishwashing fluid.
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Milo Medin said that he would pay for blocking of sites that use mouse trapping, especially when it has multiple levels. Herb Lin noted that the underlying technology has legitimate purposes, such as in making surveys or questionnaires pop up on consumer sites.
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We make sure that we re-review material, so that Web sites that go out of existence do not stay on our list. We have regular re-reviews of the list categories, both as projects within the research department and as part of the customer feedback process.
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Winnie Wechsler said that a couple of million new sites are added each year. David Forsyth said that, given 1 million new Web sites a year (not an unreasonable number)
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We chose not to put a logging or monitoring feature into the Cyber Patrol home product because children have a right to privacy if they are looking at appropriate material. As rules on privacy preferences rules about going to Web sites that collect information on kids become finalized, we will be able to implement those rules in a technological fashion, so that parents can prevent kids from going to Web sites that, for example, publish surveys.
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