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CITEworld reported that Apple met with Turkish president Abdullah Gül to discuss Apple’s involvement in one of the largest tablet deployment initiatives in schools — or any other environment According to CITEworld The $4.5 billion project is expected to take four years, and Turkey’s Industry Minister Nihat Ergun originally that the selected manufacturer would need to [...]

At the time of writing this post, MetaCert has labeled over 655 million pages of sexually explicit content – that’s more than 32 billion URLs. For those of you in the browser, search or family safety business, it’s technically 6.5 million unique domains and sub-domains – increasing hourly. There’s a live counter where you can [...]

Today, c|net and the Business Insider covered a story about Google changing it’s SafeSearch. It’s now a simple ON/OFF switch for “Filtering explicit results”. This demonstrates that the market conditions are changing in favour of making it easier to control access to explicit material specifically, over and above other types of content. It also demonstrates [...]

What’s wrong with this picture? I see three problems, which are consistent with filtering technologies that haven’t been updated since the mid 90′s. Almost every Internet safety solution on the market, continue to use outdated keyword blocking. It is technically impossible to differentiate between sites that contain adult content with sites that either talk about [...]

Today MetaCert launched a new query engine that allows you to check the status of a website in our cloud-based content classification system. Visit https://metacert.com/retrieve (accessible via the top navigation of this website). Input the domain you wish to check and you will immediately find out if it has been classified and thus, blocked by [...]

I’m delighted to announce that Francey Hakes, former high level official at the US Department of Justice has joined our Advisory Council at MetaCert. Francey served as the first-ever National Coordinator for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction from January 2010 to March 2012. The United States Attorney General appointed her to the post, which was created by [...]

The MetaCert DNS is the world’s most sophisticated method of blocking pornography without blocking access to innocent websites. It blocks over 655 million pages of sexually explicit content – or 32+ billion URLs. The biggest problem that MetaCert solves is the issue with ‘over-blocking on mass scale. MetaCert’s error rate of false positives is less [...]

I did a video interview with a personal friend of mine, Paul Carr from PandoDaily, my favourite technology blog based out of San Francisco. In the video I explain how our classification platform works and I also announce the build of our very own DNS server to replace our current browser addon software, which I [...]

There has been a lot of coverage about Internet child safety in the UK press recently. This has been due to the cross-party Parliamentary inquiry into child protection online and its renewed calls for the blocking of adult content on the internet. As I wrote in my last post, they found that children were easily [...]