IMSafer Filters, Not Spies, on Kids
Summary
IMSafer is a service that launched today and promises to filter IM communication for conversation deemed potentially predatory. The company says it worked with law enforcement specialists to develop its filtering rules and some of them are quite interesting – the phrase “you’re a good girl” is believed to be common language for building a dominance/submission based relationship, for example. Only questionable excerpts from IM conversations will be shown to parents; the company hopes that this relative privacy will help buy-in from kids. Houston, Texas based founder Brandon Watson took angel funding from past contacts from his time working at Soros and Microsoft. For further discussion on kids an online safety check out BlogSafety.com In demand, easy to use, apparently effective, relatively appealing to children and aimed at some solid distribution channels.