![]() ![]() Kaspersky Safe Kids' Parent Mode opens with a summary page for one child. Installation is mostly about approving all the permissions Safe Kids needs (nothing unexpected: access location, manage phone calls, run as a device administrator), choosing whether this is the parent's or child's system, and creating a PIN which prevents others from changing app settings. In other words, Kaspersky Safe Kids is more than just a monitoring tool: it is designed to help parents raise their digitally native kids, who are permanently attached to their devices day and night.Safe Kids' setup works much like any other parental control app, maybe apart from the fact that you don't have to pay to try it out. This feature helps to view their timeline and friends list. So, it helps to protect your child both in the real and virtual world.īesides, Safe Kids enables parents to monitor their kid’s activities on social networks without creating their own social network profile by using their personal account at my. Second, a geolocation feature is used to track your kid’s device (in most cases, kids won’t ever let go of their devices, so this can also be a means of locating the kid themselves). First, the SMS/call monitoring feature provides information on your kid’s acquaintances. Support for mobile devices led to creation of new features, which were either impossible or unnecessary on a PC. Among other things, this enables parents to proactively address a serious problem in their child’ life and provides a useful insight into topics they would need to openly discuss with their child. The program provides reports on online activities and notifies parents on their kid’s attempts to visit restricted websites or search for dangerous information. Clear reportsĪnother key advantage of Kaspersky Safe Kids is the visibility of the kid’s online activities and interests for parents. Moreover, this method unifies settings for all devices your kid uses. It makes the product more flexible, and the restrictions can be edited remotely – for instance, in the situation when the parents are at work, while the kid needs to whitelist a certain website he or she would need to do their homework. In Safe Kids, the settings are available through their personal account at my. The Parental Control feature is enabled by parents directly on the kid’s PC, meaning the parents have to physically be at the computer. There is another difference between these methods of protecting kids, which has to do with the flexibility of settings. That’s one of the key differences of Kaspersky Safe Kids from Parental Control in Kaspersky Internet Security: in addition to PCs and laptops, Safe Kids can be installed on your kid’s mobile devices (both Android and iOS). However, our data proves that 70% of kids prefer smartphones for Internet surfing, while 80% of young respondents consider their smartphone a primary means of connecting to the Internet. Kids’ smartphones are protected only in 10% of families surveyed. ![]() Kaspersky Lab’s survey showed 80% of families who use special software to protect their kids on the Internet install these programs solely on one device – a PC in most cases. Of course, some of their features overlap, but there are some fundamental differences as well. We have been asked on multiple occasions to explain the difference between Safe Kids and the Parental Control capability in our consumer products. Last year our efforts aimed at protecting kids forged into a separate product now known as Safe Kids. For years Kaspersky Lab’s products have incorporated the Parental Control module.
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