Netintelligence, a Glasgow based web security firm, is launching a new downloadable software which offers parents full control over the content their children can download to their phones.
Netintelligence have won industry awards for their PC software and have now moved into the mobile market.
Mobile phone file sharing is so easy to do that inappropriate content can be passed around the playground in seconds and is a continual worry for parents and teachers.
Phil Worms, director of Netintelligence, said:
We’re at a stage now where mobile phones are edging ever closer to mobile PCs – the capacity to record information of various media then disseminate it becomes greater with every new handset on the market. We need to exert the same levels of protection and control over mobile phones as we do over computers.
It’s just a fact that as mobile phone technology becomes more sophisticated people will abuse it, which is why it’s so important – as these recent cases have shown – that parents are able to protect their kids from threats which are now present via mobile phones.
The software allows parents to filter and block web addresses as well as GPRS and can also restrict premium rate calls and instant messaging applications.
Strangely the Netintelligence website offers no mention of blocking file sharing via Bluetooth which we would have expected to be the main way young people would share inappropriate content.
