Does Gaggle meet CIPA (Children’s Internet Protection Act) requirements to “block visual depictions that are obscene or are harmful to minors”?
One of the important provisions of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) states that schools must have technology measures in place to protect against visual depictions that are obscene or pornographic. Gaggle provides real time image analysis to detect and prevent pornographic images displayed through email. The best option that other providers can suggest is to block all attachments. However, this will not prevent pornographic images that are sent as linked files or the inclusion of URLs that point to pornographic web sites. While filters such as Xstop and 8e6 may block some pornographic sites via a blacklist, there are many other sites that will only be blocked via Gaggle’s Anti-Pornography Scanner (APS). At Gaggle we believe that pornography protection is vital for a district-provided tool that will also be used from home. No educator wants to get an angry phone call from a parent whose child accessed a pornographic picture or web site from a message that was received in a
