Whether for content or mobile access to online
virtual communities and social networks, mobile content on wireless phones has become the new challenge for parents. Monitoring and protecting children from content that is not suitable for young impressionable minds is a monumental task.
The Veratad AgeMatch
and IDMatch solutions act as a buffer and assists in verifying
those individuals initiating access. Re-verification
may also be implemented.
According to the
Boston based researchers, Yankee Group, nearly one
third
of US children already have cell phones. Today everything you can do on the
Web you can do on the latest cell phones,
potentially giving your child access to the world without any
control over downloaded content. As for adults, cell phones also contain a portable window to their life with address books, emails, payment options that can be easily used and stolen by others.