Recent events have shown that human moderation of online user generated content (UGC) is vital in both protecting children’s safety online and brands’ reputation. That’s why we are working with specialist training company Moderation Gateway to develop the first online moderation foundation training course to offer a certified moderation qualification. The pioneering course aims to [...]
Now that the Federal Trade Commission has finally released its list of changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) Rule, what do experts in the field of child internet safety make of them? I was fortunate to be part of a Google hangout discussing the FTC updates to COPPA with the following child [...]
A study commissioned by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) reveals that online child sexual abuse content is the main concern for UK web users, but more than half wouldn’t know how to report it if they stumbled across it by accident. IWF CEO Susie Hargreaves explains: “There is clear public concern over the availability of [...]
Although changes were very necessary, the recent FTC amendments to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) have sparked some confusion, and raised concerns that they will diminish innovative and educational content production. To quickly review: COPPA restricts the online collection of personal information from children under 13 years of age in advance of parent consent. It [...]
Held recently in New York, the seventh Digital Kids conference is the largest gathering of professionals engaged in building online and mobile products and services for kids. Once again co-located with Toy Fair, Digital Kids is an annual pilgrimage for brands, licensers and marketers seeking to engage children online and on digital devices. [...]
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Today is the opening day of the 7th annual Digital Kids Conference in New York City. Brand owners, entertainment and media executives, marketers, producers, digital media directors and licensing professionals will be flocking to the event, and we’ll be live tweeting the latest in children’s digital engagement too. eModeration works with a number of high [...]
No-one knows better than a moderator how imaginative and resourceful children are at getting round filters. That’s to put a nice spin on it of course. Whilst it is a great demonstration of their ingenuity and imagination and determination, the truth is, the stream of rude words and private contact information in high traffic sites [...]
Two recent surveys into US parental concerns about teens online activity online caught my eye this week – one by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, the other by The Family Safety Online Institute (FOSI). Pew’s study focussed on parental concerns about how teenage behaviour online could be monitored by others – [...]
This week is an important week in child internet safety. We’ve already blogged on Facebook’s support for anti-bullying week, and the 24th October saw the annual Internet Watch Foundation Awareness Day. At the Internet Watch Foundation Reception in Westminster on Wednesday it was great to see the work that the IWF are doing both in [...]
Vodafone Digital Parenting magazine When my friends finally get their head around what it is that I actually do (and I’ve yet to find a way to explain it to my mother), many of them ask me for advice about online child safety issues. What they are looking for is a one-stop-shop which will tell [...]