Even explicit sites touting protective technologies still place this technology behind the teasers. Caregivers also have the responsibility to learn the facts and know what the child is doing on-line. The real-time nature of the Internet allows site content to be changed at anytime. Because of this fact, technology designed to protect children from HTM materials faces significant challenges. Chat rooms, E-mail and Instant Messaging are additional challenges for technology.
Protective technologies are as diverse as their clients.
Challenges Today's youth face a multitude of challenges regarding technology that many adult caregivers cannot fully understand. We, as a society, face the challenge of protecting our children from inappropriate content and communications from a new media that has a unique character. In recent history, the dominance the U.S. experienced in the Internet community is being diminished by fast adoption in other countries. Soon half the content on the web will be from foreign sources. This provides multiple challenges for law enforcement, legislators, child protection technology vendors and more importantly, children.