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Cyber Patrol appears in:. Search inside this book for more research materials. The observation and analysis of citizen information in the digital environment is, according to expert opinion, a criminal intelligence activity rather than crime prevention; therefore, it can only be performed under certain limits and with the proper authorizations. Using an intelligence tool to collect evidence of criminal activity en masse is an illegal practice that could hinder public debate, the circulation of ideas and the right to privacy.
CSO representatives also emphasized that more information is needed on how the protocol will be applied and the technical means that will be used to enforce it. As a company devoted to prorecting kids from inappropriate content, we will not publish a directory of dirty sites. We do not filter URLs or Web sites by keyword, which is an important point. We do use keywords as part of the research process to get suspect material to look at.
The training process is done on the job using a shadowing technique. That is, a new researcher works with someone who has been doing it for a while to understand the process. Researchers work in teams, which is important in identifying material, particularly when the material is difficult to classify and a discussion about it is helpful.
Most researchers have child development backgrounds, typically with some type of training, whether teaching certification or on-the-job-training as a parent. They are not child development specialists or psychologists, but they have an appreciation for why and how to classify the material.
Cyber Patrol does not interfere with, or get involved in, the search engine process. The software works purely in the browsing process. We can block a search on sex if that is what the parent wishes, but we do not filter search results. If a child tries to visit a blocked site, Cyber Patrol shows you that the site does exist but that you were not allowed to access it, and tells the parent why. We deal with two kinds of chat. One is Web-based chat, which we block specifically by blocking the category of Web-based chat.
Alternatively, you can use privacy features, which allow kids to go into chat rooms—if you want them to be allowed to talk about bird watching or whatever—but not to give out their names, addresses, or phone numbers.
It cannot do anything about a year-old who is determined to tell someone his address. But if a naive year-old inadvertently gives out his number, then the feature replaces it with a set of nonsense characters. We also can block Internet relay chat, which is used much less often now than in the past, either completely or based on the chat channel name.
SurfControl gets a lot of feedback from customers. When a customer asks us to look at a site to see if it should be blocked for the larger population, not just for his or her own family, we spend more time on it than we otherwise might. Often, however, such sites do not warrant being added to a list that a large population uses.
Consumers can decide how well we make decisions by trying the product before they buy it. Parents can override the system, but children cannot, because, hopefully, they do not have the necessary password.
There is an element of trust. If they believe that we offer them a good place to start—filtering software is not a replacement for parents, nor is it a solution for everything—then it is a reasonable place to start to protect their kids. We try to provide parents with a solution that gives them the ability to implement their own choices. David Forsyth argued that it is easy to determine whether a dishwasher works because the plates either come out clean or dirty, but it is difficult to tell whether Cyber Patrol works, so the choice issue becomes problematic.
Milo Medin noted that the average housewife is not likely to figure out the difference between good and poor dishwashing fluid. Rather, she makes decisions based on brand, consumer reports, and other evaluations. Medin said he does not make decisions about highly technical matters based only on his own experiments; third parties do these lab tests.
We cannot guarantee percent true positives, but we do the best job we can to build the tool. If there is a metric for deciding how much accuracy is enough, it is the market.
The market decides what level of accuracy it wants by making product choices. If we have a good product, then presumably parents, schools, and businesses will continue to buy it.
If we did not have a good product, then I truly believe that Joe in his garage would come up with something better. One reason why we oppose mandatory filtering is that we believe the use of these products should be a choice that parents and educators make, just as it is a choice for businesses. When you select and evaluate a product—in our case, you can try it for 14 days before you buy it—then the choice is yours.
If it is mandated, then it is not a choice. To clarify, we have two review processes. One is the process of finding new material that comes onto the Internet. We use a variety of mechanisms, from search engines to crawlers. That same group of people is involved in the re-review process to make sure that once something is on the list, it should remain on the list. The Cyber Patrol team consists of about 10 people; most have been with us for at least 2 years and some more than 4 years.
It is a good job for a parent who wants a part-time or supplementary job. We have worked hard to ensure that the job entails more than just looking at inappropriate content all day, which would be absolutely mind numbing.
We also build positive lists. We have a Yes list that we use. The job also has responsibility in the technical side of building these lists. It might sound like a great job, looking at porn all day. But after about a day, it becomes less fun. To understand what they are reading, the reviewers can spend anywhere from a minute or less on pornographic material to upwards of 10 minutes on intolerance material or something that requires textual analysis.
A sexually explicit site can be judged fairly quickly; a picture is a picture. If deeper probing into a site is required, that takes longer. We do not block sites simply because they do mousetrapping, 4 and we do not view this technique as a red flag for sites to be reviewed.
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