Earlier this month, AOL joined the privacy bandwagon with the introduction of its SafeSocial service, a tool that grants parents access to key pieces of their kids’ online lives, from pictures and posts to Internet accounts and Facebook friends.
Now AOL has revealed the technology behind the tool, announcing today it will partner with SocialShield, a San Bruno, Calif.-based software company, to power the SafeSocial offering.
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This week, AOL unleashed a new tool to help parents sleep at night, a tool called SafeSocial that protects kids on the internet. SafeSocial grants access to key pieces of information about kids’ internet accounts, social media friends, photos and posts with key words that respond to danger. A signature of the tool seems to be the fact that kids have to agree to their parents’ use of SafeSocial. In other words, SafeSocial is less like spying than say, supervising with permission. Read more
