Anti-Paedophile PC Device Launched February 6, 2007
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No, it’s not a rusty pair of scissors. But, UK company Global Security One has launched a device called XGate, designed to help keep kids safe from paedophiles on the Net. It works by letting parents monitor where their child is online, see their conversations in chat rooms and even shut them down remotely using a PC or mobile phone if things are looking suspect.
Most Net nanny-type solutions are software-based but this is a piece of hardware with an ADSL modem inside, that monitors the kind of language used by sexual predators. It has more than a whiff a big brother about it and young teens might not be happy – are they ever? - but many parents feel helpless when their kids are on online.
Michele Elliott of anti-bullying and child abuse charity, Kidscape says: “Parents are right to be concerned that paedophiles are using the Internet to groom children. The XGate offers protection for children and gives parents a way to monitor or shut down activity that could be dangerous. We want children to be able to use the Internet safely and so we welcome this new technology.”
On sale now for £100. Necessary or overkill?-Martin Lynch
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Complete Overkill -
Monitor them by LOOKING and takign an interest in what your child is doing
Rather than letting technology BE the parent !
idiots.