{"id":2990,"date":"2012-11-26T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/2012\/11\/26\/smartphone-monitoring-and-parental-controls-free-software\/"},"modified":"2012-11-26T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T13:07:14","slug":"smartphone-monitoring-and-parental-controls-free-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/smartphone-monitoring-and-parental-controls-free-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone Monitoring and Parental Controls &#8211; Free Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argos, partnered with Symantec, is\u00a0providing Norton\u2019s Family Software to parents for free (no purchase necessary).\u00a0 The software allows parents to block access to certain types of site and monitors use.\u00a0 It works on PCs and laptops and, more usefully perhaps, <strong>on smart \u2018phones and tablets<\/strong>.\u00a0 This allows parents control of their children\u2019s use of mobile devices and allows them to know what type of sites their children are\u00a0visiting. \u00a0Features include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/news\/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/news\/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents\/\">Android<\/a> <a title=\"https:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/news\/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/news\/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents\/\">smartphone<\/a> monitoring \u2013 to see how children are using their \u2018phones<\/li>\n<li>Web monitoring and blocking \u2013 tracks the websites your child visits<\/li>\n<li>Time limits \u2013 manages the time children can access the internet from any device<\/li>\n<li>Social networking monitoring \u2013 keeps an eye on your children\u2019s activity<\/li>\n<li>Search monitoring \u2013 updates what your children are searching for<\/li>\n<li>Email alerts \u2013 alerts you when your children do something they shouldn\u2019t, for example trying to access blocked sites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Argos made this move in support of the Government\u2019s proposed legislation for ensuring protection for children from adult content on the internet.\u00a0 If you wish\u00a0to know more, here is the link.<br \/>\n<a title=\"http:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/news\/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.getsafeonline.org\/news\/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents\/\">www.getsafeonline.org\/news\/free-online-access-control-software-for-parents\/<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argos, partnered with Symantec, is\u00a0providing Norton\u2019s Family Software to parents for free (no purchase necessary).\u00a0 The software allows parents to block access to certain types of site and monitors use.\u00a0 It works<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/smartphone-monitoring-and-parental-controls-free-software\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2736,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}