Parents everywhere are a worried lot when it comes to their children accessing the internet. The internet has a lot of good things but also bad things like pornography, cyber bullying, sexual predators among others. However this is about to change with the introduction of the ESET Parental Control for Android app. The app provides age and category based filters to restrict children’s access to inappropriate web content.
The new app will help parents regulate the amount of time their children spend on gaming and internet browsing through the ‘Application Guard and Time Management’ function. Another function which i know will come in handy for most parents is the ‘Child Locator’ service can be used to track the child’s location.
According to the ESET East Africa Manager, Bruce Donovan children are increasingly accessing the internet from mobile devices as opposed to computers hence increasing the need for parents to manage what their children do with their smartphones. He continued to state that a study conducted by ESET indicated that 88 percent of parents are worried about what their children can access online. Out of these 71 percent mentioned that their children had in the past forwarded personal details to strangers while 61 percent highlighted excessive amounts of time spent on devices.
A survey has revealed that despite the Communications Authority launching the “Be the Cop” child online protection campaign and parental fears, only a few of the parents have installed a parental control app. The ESET app safeguards children with smartphones by giving them protection without limiting performance. The app boasts of a wealth of child protection features and a friendly user interface.
Other interesting features of the app include the ‘Parental message’ which allows the parents to read SMS’s sent to the child and “Reports for parents’ which sends regular emails to parents on their child’s internet usage. It also has an added option for children to ask their parents for special permission to access certain apps or web content or ask for extra gaming or browsing time.
The ESET Parental Control app for Android is available for free from Google Play store or here.