Parental Control Filters Encouragement/ Awareness to customers by ISPs for installation of end user filters or Parental Control Filters. Few parental control filters sugges ted by MeitY include netnanny, K9, Kaspersky Safe Kids, SafeDNS, etc. One of useful parental controls offered by ISPs globally is the ability to set up user accounts wherein user can create settings for each person so that kids are protected butadults have full access. There are also hardware options that can set controls at the router leve l so that all the computers and dev ices in home that use the Internet have the parental controls in place. Recently, International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has released ‘Guidelines for Child Online Protection(COP)-2020’ for Industry, Policy makers and Parents & Educators which provide best practices feature specific checklists for different stakeholders including netwo rk service providers (ISPs). These guidelines, available at https://www.itu-copguide lines.com/, may be referred while framing...
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