Parental Control Applications Research Articles

A cross-sectional study on smartphone use and mindfulness among undergraduate medical students of a medical college in Kolkata

Background: Nowadays, increasing use of smart phone has led to smart phone addiction. Even medical students are inadvertently using these devices for non-academic purposes. Excessive smart phone use can impact mindfulness, which, in turn, can hamper patient care. Aims and Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the smart phone usage and mindfulness among Undergraduate Medical Students of a Medical College, Kolkata. Materials and Methods: An observational study and cross-sectional in design was conducted from October 01, 2022, to December 12, 2022, among 423 undergraduate medical students of a medical college in Kolkata selected by simple random sampling technique using a pre-designed pre-tested structured questionnaire (containing mindful attention awareness scale). Besides, assessment of Digital Wellbeing and Parental Control application was done. Data were analyzed using Microsoft Office Excel 2019 and SPSSv25. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to represent the data. Results: Over 80% participants were using their smart phones excessively and 52.5% students were unmindful. YouTube (26.9%) was the maximally used application. The participants spent 360 min/day on smart phone on an average. Being a male had a higher odd of excessive smart phone usage. Hostel residents were more mindful than others. Duration of smart phone use had a positive relation with mindfulness (Spearman’s rho 0.108, P=0.026). Conclusion: The participants spent a major portion of the day in front of smart phone screens. Smartphone use had a positive impact on mindfulness. By setting boundaries, that is, limiting daily usage in websites and apps, smart phone use can be reduced.

Pemanfaatan Aplikasi Parental Control Sebagai Media untuk Mewujudkan Internet Sehat dan Aman

The use of the internet must be in accordance with applicable ethics and norms. The internet must be used for positive activities and not harm yourself or others. Healthy internet is the concept of using the internet to protect yourself and others from possible dangers or risks in the online world. Referring to the press release of the Indonesian Child Protection Commission (KPAI), the number of complaints related to special child protection cases in 2021 was 2,982 cases. Of these, 345 cases were related to cybercrime (internet crime). As many as 64% of internet users in Indonesia are teenagers aged 15 to 19 years, so the role of parents is very important in supervising their children's behavior when using the internet. Parental control is software (software) or equipment that allows parents to control, limit and regulate the use of the internet for children. This activity aims to educate parents regarding the use of parental control applications to supervise children and adolescents in internet use. The method used in this research is Community Based Research (CBR). Helps make it easier for parents to supervise children's internet use to avoid negative content.

Peran Orang Tua terhadap Penggunaan Gadget pada Anak Usia Dini Generasi Alpha

The alpha generation is children born between 2011-2025. Alpha generation children are very familiar with digital technology as if their lives cannot be separated from the internet or gadgets. Therefore, with the development of increasingly sophisticated and increasingly rapid technology, early childhood requires good care, supervision, and assistance from their parents while using gadgets. The purpose of this study was to find out how parents' role in using gadgets in the early childhood alpha generation. This research uses a literature study method from scientific articles, journals, books, and others previously conducted to answer this research. This study showed that parents are very important in children using their gadgets. For example, parents must accompany children when playing with their gadgets, maintain good communication withchildren, manage the time they use gadgets for children every day, and parents can use parental control applications to monitor children when using the internet. The alpha generation is children born between 2011-2025. Alpha generation children are very familiar with digital technology as if their lives cannot be separated from the internet or gadgets. Therefore, with the development of increasingly sophisticated and increasingly rapid technology, early childhood requires good care, supervision, and assistance from their parents while using gadgets. The purpose of this study was to find out how parents' role in using gadgets in the early childhood alpha generation. This research uses a literature study method from scientific articles, journals, books, and others previously conducted to answer this research. This study showed that parents are very important in children using their gadgets. For example, parents must accompany children when playing with their gadgets, maintain good communication with children, manage the time they use gadgets for children every day, and parents can use parental control applications to monitor children when using theinternet.

Children’s Safety on YouTube: A Systematic Review

Background: With digital transformation and growing social media usage, kids spend considerable time on the web, especially watching videos on YouTube. YouTube is a source of education and entertainment media that has a significant impact on the skill improvement, knowledge, and attitudes of children. Simultaneously, harmful and inappropriate video content has a negative impact. Recently, researchers have given much attention to these issues, which are considered important for individuals and society. The proposed methods and approaches are to limit or prevent such threats that may negatively influence kids. These can be categorized into five main directions. They are video rating, parental control applications, analysis meta-data of videos, video or audio content, and analysis of user accounts. Objective: The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review of the existing methods, techniques, tools, and approaches that are used to protect kids and prevent them from accessing inappropriate content on YouTube videos. Methods: This study conducts a systematic review of research papers that were published between January 2016 and December 2022 in international journals and international conferences, especially in IEEE Xplore Digital Library, ACM Digital Library, Web of Science, Google Scholar, Springer database, and ScienceDirect database. Results: The total number of collected articles was 435. The selection and filtration process reduced this to 72 research articles that were appropriate and related to the objective. In addition, the outcome answers three main identified research questions. Significance: This can be beneficial to data mining, cybersecurity researchers, and peoples’ concerns about children’s cybersecurity and safety.

Italy ∙ Parental Control Applications: Providers and Manufacturers’ Obligations

Italy ∙ Parental Control Applications: Providers and Manufacturers’ Obligations

ChildProtect: A parental control application for tracking hostile surfing content

The emergence of the Internet and social media has provided a ground conducive to the rapid development of violent ideas and online malicious behavior, and even to rising the share of hostile content (hate speech, fake news, etc.). Such behavior raises concerns about children who are overly exposed to the internet and likely misusing the online content. Unwantedly, they can stumble upon dangerous websites inciting them to violence, terrorism and radicalization. Motivated by the efforts towards confronting these malicious activities, we propose a new parental control application, called ChildProtect. The main purpose of our application is to monitor children’s activities on the Internet, protect them from hostile postings and online threats, prevent the radicalization, and eventually alert and inform their parents. Hence, we introduce a framework composed of two main sides, namely backend and frontend. The frontend presents the Childprotect’s functionalities offered to parents. Unnecessary, the backend constitutes the application’ kernel, which aims at performing a deep content-analysis of the online child’s activities. In this side, we distinguished various steps, including the collecting and managing of the child’s browsing history, as well as mining and analyzing the collected data for identifying its hostile valence. We build a dictionary containing dangerous vocabulary frequently used for online hostility. The findings of our proposed method were evaluated using expert identification. The conducted experiments demonstrated that our method is effective, consistent, and outperforms the results of its competitors in the literature.

Application of Healthy and Safe Internet in Controlling Negative Internet Impacts for Students at MI Darussa'adah, South Jakarta.

The use of gadgets today has become a major requirement for everyone. In the present, many children are using gadget since childhood especially to watch videos on youtube, play online games, and search for learning materials through the help of the internet.This can be a good step so that children easily adapt to technological developments. But on the other hand, parents must worry if children play gadgets too often and access things that are not age-appropriate, which is not necessarily suitable for their age. It is important for parents to monitor the use of gadgets in children. The role of parents and teachers in dealing with this situation, they must have the ability to monitor and control the use of the internet by parental control applications. It is able to select, limit, and supervise what applications can be accessed by children and adolescents so they can still use gadgets as a learning and entertainment medium without having to be addicted and poisoned by negative content.

Pedagogical Conditions for Digital Citizenship Formation among Primary School Pupils

The digitalization of the world community implies the need for preparing the citizens for active activities in the virtual environment, critical evaluation of information content, and safe behavior on the internet. Additional importance, in this context, is to be attributed to the need for the formation of digital intelligence (DQ). The initial stage of DQ development is specifically important, as involves the development of digital citizenship. The article presents the results of scientific theoretical and experimental research on the problem of primary school pupils’ digital citizenship formation. The scientific novelty is that for the first time the concepts of “primary school pupils’ digital citizenship” and “a digital citizen”, as well as the criteria, indicators, and levels of its development, have been specified. In addition, the pedagogical conditions of digital citizenship formation have been defined as the project method implementation, based on digital citizenship content; the use of parental control applications; the use of didactic infographics in the informational and educational environment. The article presents the pedagogical model of school pupils’ digital citizenship formation in the educational process. The study was conducted on the basics of the Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University (2018-2020).

Literasi Internet Untuk Meminimalisir Dampak Konten Negatif Pada Ibu-Ibu Pkk Desa Citeras

Internet rapid use in daily life has led to lifestyle changes. Internet is not only used by adults but also children. The Family Welfare Empowerment (PKK) action as the vanguard in the family has goals to create a family with noble character. It is important for PKK mothers to understand internet literacy in order to educate their children in healthy internet use so that the negative impact can be minimized. Based on the situation analysis, problems in Citeras village can be formulated, namely the need to increase the understanding of Citeras village PKK mothers regarding internet literacy. The solution to this problem is to conduct training activities on internet literacy and use of parental control applications. This activity aims to improve the competence of PKK mothers so that they can monitor their children in using the internet positively. This training has been carried out well. This is reinforced by the data from the internet usage survey, the high category N-gain value of 96,15, and the results of the survey on the implementation of activities to the community which received a positive response from the participants

Antitrust regulation of product ecosystems: The case study of Kaspersky Lab. – Apple Inc.

Implementation of the ecosystem business model can not only bring significant gains to a company, but also entail additional risks, including those of violating antitrust laws. The article analyses the Apple Inc. ecosystem, which has recently become the subject of a number of complaints from independent software developers and of antitrust investigations. The study shows how a unique position within the ecosystem can lead a company to market dominance. As a result, actions aimed at creating preferential conditions for the company’s services can be interpreted as restricting competition through fostering a discriminatory environment and preventing independent software developers from entering the market. The analysis is based on public information about Apple’s actions against third-party developers and the recent investigation into the company’s conduct in response to the complaint by Kaspersky Lab. The reason for the initiation of legal proceedings was Apple’s actions setting new rules for the App Store and resulting in improper functioning of the parental control application “Kaspersky Safe Kids”. Methodologically, the study relies on ecosystem theory and the theory of industrial organization. The main research method is case study. The research demonstrates how Apple’s actions can be interpreted in terms of such concepts as essential facilities, tying practices, aftermarkets, and leveraging of market power. These concepts are applicable to Apple’s conduct, including the closed type of the ecosystem built by the company.

Angel or Devil? A Privacy Study of Mobile Parental Control Apps

Abstract Android parental control applications are used by parents to monitor and limit their children’s mobile behaviour (e.g., mobile apps usage, web browsing, calling, and texting). In order to offer this service, parental control apps require privileged access to system resources and access to sensitive data. This may significantly reduce the dangers associated with kids’ online activities, but it raises important privacy concerns. These concerns have so far been overlooked by organizations providing recommendations regarding the use of parental control applications to the public. We conduct the first in-depth study of the Android parental control app’s ecosystem from a privacy and regulatory point of view. We exhaustively study 46 apps from 43 developers which have a combined 20M installs in the Google Play Store. Using a combination of static and dynamic analysis we find that: these apps are on average more permissions-hungry than the top 150 apps in the Google Play Store, and tend to request more dangerous permissions with new releases; 11% of the apps transmit personal data in the clear; 34% of the apps gather and send personal information without appropriate consent; and 72% of the apps share data with third parties (including online advertising and analytics services) without mentioning their presence in their privacy policies. In summary, parental control applications lack transparency and lack compliance with regulatory requirements. This holds even for those applications recommended by European and other national security centers.

Beyond Parental Control: Designing Adolescent Online Safety Apps Using Value Sensitive Design

Parental control applications are designed to help parents monitor their teens and protect them from online risks. Generally, parents are considered the primary stakeholders for these apps; therefore, the apps often emphasize increased parental control through restriction and monitoring. By taking a developmental perspective and a Value Sensitive Design approach, we explore the possibility of designing more youth-centric online safety features. We asked 39 undergraduate students in the United States to create design charrettes of parental control apps that would better represent teens as stakeholders. As emerging adults, students discussed the value tensions between teens and parents and designed features to reduce and balance these tensions. While they emphasized safety, the students also designed to improve parent-teen communication, teen autonomy and privacy, and parental support. Our research contributes to the adolescent online safety literature by presenting design ideas from emerging adults that depart from the traditional paradigm of parental control. We also make a pedagogical contribution by leveraging design charrettes as a classroom tool for engaging college students in the design of youth-centered apps. We discuss why features that support parent-teen cooperation, teen privacy, and autonomy may be more developmentally appropriate for adolescents than existing parental control app designs.

Penerapan Aplikasi Parental Control Screen Time dalam Penggunaan Smartphone bagi Anak-anak

Smartphones today has become a necessity, including for children. Today, many children are used to using smartphones. Children often play games, watch youtube, enjoy chatting in social media and use Google for information search. This can be a good step so that children easily adapt to technology but can also have a negative impact. Parents must be vigilant if they see children often playing smartphones. It is important for parents to be able to control and supervise the use of children's smartphones. One solution is to use the Parental Control application. This smartphone child application can be set which applications are permitted and restrictions on playing time can be controlled. This is very good for healthy internet use among children. Screen Time is a parental control application that is useful for selecting, limiting, and supervising children's smartphone usage. This application has many features of control, supervision, scheduling and giving additional rewards for playing time if the child is doing a good assignment. By using these apps children can be set to play smartphones according to family need .

Capacitive Touch Communication: A Technique to Input Data through Devices' Touch Screen

As we are surrounded by an ever-larger variety of post-PC devices, the traditional methods for identifying and authenticating users have become cumbersome and time consuming. In this paper, we present a capacitive communication method through which a device can recognize who is interacting with it. This method exploits the capacitive touchscreens, which are now used in laptops, phones, and tablets, as a signal receiver. The signal that identifies the user can be generated by a small transmitter embedded into a ring, watch, or other artifact carried on the human body. We explore two example system designs with a low-power continuous transmitter that communicates through the skin and a signet ring that needs to be touched to the screen. Experiments with our prototype transmitter and tablet receiver show that capacitive communication through a touchscreen is possible, even without hardware or firmware modifications on a receiver. This latter approach imposes severe limits on the data rate, but the rate is sufficient for differentiating users in multiplayer tablet games or parental control applications. Controlled experiments with a signal generator also indicate that future designs may be able to achieve data rates that are useful for providing less obtrusive authentication with similar assurance as PIN codes or swipe patterns commonly used on smartphones today.