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CIPA does not: [37] require tracking Internet use by minors or adults; or; affect E-rate funding for schools and libraries receiving discounts for telecommunications services, such as telephone service, but not for Internet access or internal connections. require an internet filter that prevents access to video games, social media, etc.
Web filtering in schools blocks students from inappropriate and distracting content across the web, while allowing sites that are selected by school administrators. [1] Rather than simply blocking off large portions of the Internet, many schools utilize customizable web filtering systems that provide them with greater control over which sites are allowed and which are blocked.
As the web grew, so did the variety of explicit materials, and Google responded by refining how SafeSearch worked, particularly in Google Images. 2010 – SafeSearch Locked Feature: Locking SafeSearch for Kids and Schools: In 2010, Google introduced a feature allowing parents and schools to lock SafeSearch on shared devices or accounts. By ...
The Sudanese authorities blocked YouTube on April 21, 2010, following the 2010 presidential election, and also blocked YouTube's owner Google. The block was in response to a YouTube video appearing to show National Electoral Commission workers in official uniforms and a child in the Hamashkoreib region filling out voting strips and putting them ...
A majority of apps and websites blocked are the result of the companies not willing to follow the Chinese government's internet regulations on data collection and privacy, user-safety, guidelines and the type of content being shared, posted or hosted. This is a list of the most notable such blocked websites in the country (except Autonomous area).
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and web caches of search engines are not blocked and include copies of North Korean websites. [6] In 2005, up to 3,167 webpages unrelated to North Korea were found to be blocked due to blocking IPs at the router level. [5] DNS tampering that prevents domain names to be resolved into correct IPs is also used. [7]
Companies that make products that selectively block Web sites do not refer to these products as censorware, and prefer terms such as "Internet filter" or "URL Filter"; in the specialized case of software specifically designed to allow parents to monitor and restrict the access of their children, "parental control software" is also used.
Following the continuous backlash over aggressive tracking and unknown data retention periods, Google has tried to appeal to a growing number of privacy conscious people. At Google I/O 2019, it announced plans to limit the data retention period for some of it services, starting with Web and App Activity. [27]