By Elisabeth Nieshalla | July 2, 2021 | 2:09pm EDT
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(CNS News) Prompted by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), Google will add automatic safety features on educational Chromebooks in an effort to protect students from sexually explicit material and predators on their school devices.
“We are constantly working to improve our products and services to make them even safer for children, students and families,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “Together with key experts, like the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, we are committed to putting the safety, security and privacy needs of our users first.”
“We re excited that the changes announced today help provide schools around the world with controls to provide students with an even safer way to learn,” said Google.
Google Changes Chromebooks to Help Protect Kids From Explicit Material and Predators
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Push to protect children finally pays off
Wednesday, June 30, 2021 |
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An anti-trafficking organization says it has made enormous progress in its mission to protect children online thanks to the biggest Big Tech firm of all.
That good news comes from Dawn Hawkins, who heads the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, which has been demanding “safer spaces” for children when they browse the Internet.
“For a number of years we ve been asking Google to make sure that all of the devices and systems, platforms that they send to our schools, by default return to safety. And at first they said no.”