Various groups, mostly affiliated with religious organizations, distribute software that allegedly blocks out pornography and explicit sexual content. The idea is a good one – for those people who don ...

In May, Google users in China who searched politically sensitive terms discovered a new feature when they used the search engine: a pop-up notice informing them why their search yields no results, and ...

ANN ARBOR, MI – A comprehensive new study of Internet filtering software finds that libraries, schools and parents can bar access to pornographic Internet sites without necessarily blocking important ...

Consumer Reports’ research shows filtering software effectively blocks porn sites, but not sites that promote hate, violence and drugs. And even the best of today’s safeguards tend to block ...

Web filtering software blocks access to objectionable material through a variety of methods, including blacklists, keyword lists, content rating systems and white lists. Blacklists consist of a ...

Dale Alexander, the information technology director for Albuquerque public schools, was hardly a fan of filtering software designed to block pornography and Web sites ...

A surprising number of people, from social media platforms to police surveillance systems, are very interested in what you look like. That means companies are able to learn a lot about you — your ...

Lightspeed Systems, which produces software used for website filtering in thousands of public schools across the U.S., says it will update its software to remove a filter that blocked websites with ...