{"id":26351,"date":"2012-12-18T13:11:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=26351"},"modified":"2012-12-18T13:11:28","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:11:28","slug":"bitdefender-launches-parental-control-to-fight-bullies-online-predators-indecent-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=26351","title":{"rendered":"Bitdefender Launches Parental Control to Fight Bullies, Online Predators, Indecent Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><em>Bitdefender Parental Control protects children on social networks, mobile phones, instant messenger<\/em><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>SYDNEY\/AUCKLAND<\/em><\/strong><strong> <\/strong>\u2013<strong> December 18, 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Bitdefender, designer of the world\u2019s best <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/\">antivirus software<\/a>, has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/solutions\/parental-control.html\">Bitdefender Parental Control<\/a> to serve as a standalone bodyguard for children and teens, helping fend off bullies, predators and unwanted exposure, and helping safeguard their reputations on social networks.<\/p>\n<p>As kids spend an increasing amount of time online for play, socialising and learning, Bitdefender has created a tool that allows children and teens to explore and discover while offering parents peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether we like it or not, children interact daily on the internet with people they don\u2019t even know, are subjected to threats from technologies they don\u2019t understand, and risk their safety \u2013 and reputations \u2013 through social networking,\u201d said Bitdefender Chief Security Strategist Catalin Cosoi. \u201cWe\u2019ve come up with a product to help counter all those risks and give children a smooth start to their online life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bitdefender Parental Control takes every action reasonable to protect children \u2013 it restricts web access to the hours set by parents, blocks pornography and other content parents deem inappropriate, and it monitors children\u2019s activity on social networks and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The tool tracks who tries to contact your kids and tells you who your children interact with. It\u2019ll inform you of who\u2019s been sending SMSs to your child, keep you aware of your child\u2019s location, alert you when your child makes a new friend on Facebook, monitor wall posts and photos, track phone calls, steer your child away from hacker sites, tell you when your child leaves the school ground, blacklist bullies and others in instant messaging, and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitdefender Parental Control protects children on social networks, mobile phones, instant messenger\u00a0 SYDNEY\/AUCKLAND \u2013 December 18, 2012 \u2013 Bitdefender, designer of the world\u2019s best antivirus software, has launched Bitdefender Parental Control to serve as a standalone bodyguard for children and teens, helping fend off bullies, predators and unwanted exposure, and helping safeguard their reputations on<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=26351\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26353,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26351\/revisions\/26353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}