How does the netSafeID™ system protect children and teens on the Internet?
People can easily misrepresent themselves on the Web, thereby gaining access to content that is not age-appropriate. Congress passed the Child On-line Protection Act (COPA) to try to shield the young from inappropriate material, but this legislation has been impossible to implement without the netSafeID system technology. Up to now the main attempt to comply with COPA has been by filtering, which can be defeated or bypassed by savvy teens and cyber-criminals. The netSafeID system verifies the age of website visitors when they log-in. Kids can’t enter adult sites with a netSafeID identifier because they are pre-screened. Parents who wish to protect their children against online predators may register them with our service, so websites can limit a child’s exposure to other age-appropriate visitors on the site. Purveyors of adult content and services may use the service to demonstrate due diligence in keeping minors off their website. The law is greatly concerned about persons “under the
