Internet filtering
There are a number of content filtering companies that have expressed interest in deploying their filters as a client or across a network (via regional servers).
Netsweeper
Netsweeper is a commercial content filtering company that has expressed interest in deploying their filters as a client or across a network on servers. They work in W.Va, with school children in Great Britain, and with school boards implementing laptop programs in various schools.
Their tools include
- a policy server : applying policy decisions based on rules, with good/bad categories chosen based on rules governed by NS (and a whitelist/blacklist).
- a client : something deployment on the laptops
- reporting from schools
- Telco-level setup, on or off the main network
Upcoming features:
- Image recognition with a group from U. Waterloo
Localization
- Support for De, En, Es, Fr, Ja, Pt.
They have limited international experience, working in 8 countries, though they are a primarily English-language company. (They have also been in touch with the Haiti ministry and with Peru.) There is some future work ongoing in India.
Performance
There are regional servers in a dozen parts of the world to support updating of categories by matching/nnets. They are mainly interested in network performance and their algorithms for making filtering and updates faster.
Other
Symantec have Internet safety materials for children, among other texts and services.
