Internet filters may not shield schoolchildren from bad experiences, because they can get online using smartphones instead. The first UK study on filters has found teenagers whose parents have them ...

Internet filters designed to block pornographic Web sites also prevent users from accessing health information online up to a quarter of the time. Experts say the filters are bad news for teen-agers ...

People use computers at an Internet cafe in Changzhi, north China's Shanxi province June 20, 2007. REUTERS/Stringer By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) - Parents often rely on filtering software to block ...

The Digital Immigrant and Digital Native Discussions Continue.... In 2001, Mark Prensky coined the terms “Digital Natives” and “Digital Immigrants” to describe the differences between adults and ...

Every study of Internet filters — software that keeps kids away from porn and other inappropriate Web sites — has shown that they are flawed, but a new study commissioned by the Kaiser Family ...

You know the device you put on your kids’ computers to prevent them from watching porn and propositioning strangers in chat rooms? Get rid of it — it’s probably just eating up hard drive space. A new ...

A new study finds no link between household internet filters and the likelihood of the teenagers in those households being better protected from unpleasant online material. Internet filters are widely ...

Dale Alexander, the IT director for Albuquerque, N.M., public schools, was not exactly a fan of filtering software for blocking pornography and other Web sites deemed inappropriate for children. But ...

(Reuters Health) - Parents often rely on filtering software to block children’s online contact with bullies, predators, pornography and other inappropriate material, but a new study casts doubt on the ...

Internet filters set at the least restrictive level blocked 1.4 percent of health sites, and blocked some 5 percent of sites when set at their intermediate level. However, when researchers set filters ...