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There is a growing prevalence of mobile devices being used to access explicit content.
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Porn is a commonplace everyday activity:
“Today, 68% of young adult men and 18% of women use porn at least once every week. Another 17% and another 30% of women use porn 1-2 times per month. This means for 85% of young men and nearly half of young women, watching porn is at least a monthly activity” (Covenant Eyes).
Porn’s new favorite medium is mobile:
“By 2015, mobile adult content and services are expected to reach $2.8 billion per year, mobile adult subscriptions will reach nearly $1 billion, and mobile adult video consumption on tablets will triple. We are already starting to see an increase in mobile adult content” (Covenant Eyes).
Everyone has access to it:
“Never before in the history of telecommunications media in the United States has so much indecent (and obscene) material been so easily accessible by so many minors in so many American homes with so few restrictions.” – U.S. Department of Justice (Covenant Eyes).
Porn’s demographic is anyone and everyone:
“50% of all Christian men and 20% of all christian women say they are addicted to pornography” (Covenant Eyes).
“Pornography Statistics: Annual Report 2014” Covenant Eyes. Webpage, n.d. 9 Sep. 2014. http://www.covenanteyes.com/pornstats/
What can be done?:
How can children stay safe online and still use devices such as smartphones and tablets? How can men and women who want accountability with their mobile devices use smartphones and tablets and still maintain integrity?
A proven solution:
“The late psychologist, Dr. Al Cooper, believed three main factors draw people into online sexual activity:
- Accessibility (porn is accessible easily from any Internet connection)
- Affordability (millions of free or very cheap images are available online)
- Anonymity (home computers and Smartphones have made it very easy to be secretive)” (Gilkerson).
“He dubbed this the “Triple-A Engine” of Internet porn. These three factors work like three legs on a stool: remove just one of the legs and the stool will fall (or at least make it awkward to sit on)” (Gilkerson).
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“The easiest leg to remove is the leg of anonymity, or secrecy. We do this by becoming accountable to others about the time we spend online, taking away the option to hide our Internet activity” (Gilkerson).
Gilkerson, Luke. “Your Brain on Porn” Covenant Eyes. Digital Article, n.d. 9 Sep. 2014.
Practical application of solution (What mobile devices can and cannot be used to maintain integrity?):
iDevices:
The iPhone, iPad, and iPod are unable to provide legitimate accountability for children, teens, and anyone else who needs or wants accountability with their device usage.
Why is this the case?:
iOS is the operating system for iPhone, iPad, and iPod. It is built as a system where apps cannot “talk” to each other. This means that applications cannot monitor or interact with other apps.
Real World Relevance:
Accountability apps are browsers that are used as a replacement to Safari or any other browser. Every accountability app on iOS can ONLY monitor itself. This means that every other app on the iDevice will remain completely unmonitored (Safari, Facebook, Twitter, Angry Birds, etc…). The only way that an iDevice can become truly monitored is by blocking iTunes (so that apps cannot be downloaded) and deleting ALL apps on the iDevice except for the accountability app. But why do you need to block all other apps if they are not browsers and therefore don’t have access to the internet? The problem with this is that 99% of iDevice apps have built in browsers. Here is a list of apps that I personally used and tested to see if they had unrestricted access to the internet (all of them did).
Groupon Candy Crush Saga Skype Kik Angry Birds EasilyDo IFTTT Runtastic Facebook Evernote Mint Personal Finance Google Maps Twitter Chrome Instagram The Weather Channel Google Earth Instagram SoundHound Foursquare Pinterest eBay Bible QuizUp Redbox Amazon Wells Fargo Netflix Yelp Vine Emoji> Wunderlist Blue Letter Bible Google+ Movies by Flixster Google Drive Hangouts Snapchat Venmo Google Translate Bitstips Fooducate CamScanner QR Reader Dictionary.com Gas Buddy Wikipedia ESPN Fancy TuneIn Radio Guitar Tuna Photo Grid InstaFrame Tiny Piano Fancy Rove Vimeo Everlapse Strava Run OpenTable Tiny Wings Circa News Bump Pic Collage Temple Run Lumosity Words With Friends Smartr Contacts Quora SugarSync Bitcasa Converter Plus Duolingo Any.DO RedLaser RunKeeper Calorie Counter & Diet Tracker RetailMeNot Coupons StumbleUpon! Pic Stitch Dashlane Password Manager
The in app browsers can be accessed multiple different ways. The most common 3 ways in which this is accomplished is by
1: clicking on an in- app ad.
2: Clicking on a url link to the app developers site.
3: Clicking on social media links for sites such as Twitter or Facebook.
But what about app content ratings?
iPhone application content ratings are flawed. This is because ALL apps have the ability to contain a built in browser no matter what their content rating is. A great example app that showcases this troubling truth is the app “Tiny Piano” which is an app that generates a playable piano. It has an iTunes content rating of 4+ which is the lowest level of objectionable material in Apple content ratings. 4+ is described by Apple as “Apps in this category contain no objectionable material” (iTunes store). After 4+ is 9+, 12+, and 17+ (all of these numbers represent age eg. 4, 9, 12, 17). The 4+ rating of the Tiny Piano app is a misrepresentation of the available content due to the app browser’s full unrestricted/unmonitored access to the internet.
“App Ratings” Apple. iTunes Application, n.d. 9 Sep. 2014.
***IF PARENTS THINK THEY CAN RELY ON APP CONTENT RATINGS WHEN DECIDING WHAT APPS TO LET THEIR CHILDREN USE, THEN THEY ARE GREATLY MISTAKEN. THE SAME GOES FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO THINK THAT CONTENT RATINGS WILL LIMIT THEIR EXPOSURE TO EXPLICIT CONTENT.***
What about the iPhone parental controls?:
Just like Apple’s content rating system, the iPhone parental controls are flawed. With iPhone parental controls you can only block the ability to download apps or access specific websites. This makes the phone virtually unusable. To demonstrate the decapacitating effect of parental controls, this information taken from the covenant eyes website reveals what one must do to “lock down” the iPhone, iPad, iPod in order to make the device truly monitored/accountable:
How Covenant Eyes works for iPhone®, iPad®, and iPod touch® (Covenant Eyes)
“Covenant Eyes offers an Internet browser for Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. It is designed to replace Safari. This app is free to subscribers to Covenant Eyes Internet Accountability and Filtering. Because of the way Apple designed its operating system, this app does not work like the desktop versions of our software. It cannot run in the background, monitoring your Internet activity and filtering content generated through other browsers and apps. Only Internet activity logged through the Covenant Eyes browser is filtered and recorded in the Accountability Report.” (Covenant Eyes).
7 Easy Steps to Setting Restrictions
The Covenant Eyes browser app is designed to work hand-in-hand with your device’s built-in restrictions. Because Covenant Eyes only monitors and blocks web pages visited through this browser app, you should adjust your device’s settings and block access to certain apps.
- Launch the “Settings” app and then select the icon labeled “General.”
- Select “Restrictions” and tap the button labeled “Enable Restrictions.”
- You will be asked for a four-digit passcode. We recommend having the person who holds you accountable set this passcode for you.
- Next, turn off Safari, AirDrop, and other apps that might allow objectionable material. Toggle “Installing Apps” to “Off” as well. Note that many apps have built-in browsers used for ads, contact, or comments, which Covenant Eyes does not monitor.
- Many apps, such as the YouTube app, cannot be disabled as in step 4. You will need to uninstall the app (if it is already installed), then disable “Installing Apps” to prevent reinstallation.
- Under “Allowed Content,” toggle off the ability to listen to explicit music and podcasts, and disallow movies and TV shows at inappropriate levels (e.g. NC-17 for movies and TV-MA for TV shows).
- DO NOT disable apps rated 17+. Because Covenant Eyes offers Internet access that can be unfiltered, Apple rates it 17+. By disabling 17+ apps, you will be disabling Covenant Eyes
How does the iOS7 filter work with Covenant Eyes?
The iOS7 filter is designed to block private browsing and inappropriate content in Safari, but it also adds an extra layer of protection to web searches across all apps, including the Covenant Eyes browser app. The problem with the iOS filter is that it is sporadic. After extensive testing with the filter on the highest level, pornography content and sites were still accessible through the built in app browsers. The only way that I was able to make the iOS device fully accountable was by deleting all apps and by blocking the ability to download any apps.
“How do I use the iPhone Browser App?” Covenant Eyes. Webpage, n.d. 9 Sep. 2014. http://www.covenanteyes.com/support-articles/how-do-i-use-the-iphone-browser-app/
Android:
Android is the only mobile operating system that currently has legitimate ways in which to make a device tailored to accountability and parental controls. Because Android is open source, its apps are able to talk to each other. This means that accountability software functions the same way on Android devices (phones and tablets) as it would on personal computers.
Accountable2You:
Accountable2You is the best application available for Android devices. It monitors ALL usage of the device (apps, browsers, games, etc…).
Android apps have built in browsers as well, but they can be monitored through the Accountable2You application.
There are also a plethora of parental control apps that are available for more control over the device’s functions. The two best apps that I have come across are “Funamo Parental Controls” and “Funamo Accountable”. One is tailored more towards parental controls while the other towards accountability.
The main features of each are:
Funamo Parental Controls Key Features:
★Funamo’s patent-pending web filtering technology blocks pornographic web sites on your mobile devices. ★Allow additional control by specifying web site blacklist, whitelist and keyword filtering ★Support whitelist-only mode which limits the web access to a pre-defined list of web sites. ★Force SafeSearch for all leading search engines including Google, Bing and Yahoo. ★Content filtering and in-app purchase protection for YouTube and Google Play Store. Device monitoring: ★Log the history of all calls, SMS messages, web site visits and applications launched. ★Real-time location tracking to see where your kids have been. ★Allow individual switches to turn on/off the history logging features. Application control: ★Protected applications are always protected by a password. ★Support the option to automatically block all browsers except for Funamo Safe Browser. ★Set time limit for applications so that they are only available during selected time slots. ★Set daily time allowances for selected applications. Allow different time allowance for weekdays and weekends. ★The Application quarantine feature automatically puts any newly downloaded apps in the protected app list. School-time/Silent-time setup: ★Automatically put the device in the silent mode in selected time slots to prevent interruptions during school sessions. ★It can be overridden if important calls or messages are expected by manually turning on the volume.
Funamo Accountable Key Features:
Same as Funamo Parental Controls but tailored more towards adults and accountability rather than blocking like the parental controls version.
With Accountable2You and Funamo applications, all of the flaws and issues associated with iOS are non existent with Android.
Summary:
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Computers such as Mac and PC’s internet activity CAN be monitored. Android device’s internet activity CAN be monitored. iOS Device’s internet CANNOT be monitored.
Computers: Have software that provides legitimate online accountability and parental controls.
Android Devices: Have software that provides legitimate online accountability and parental controls.
iOS Devices: Do not have software that provides legitimate online accountability and parental controls.
*********This article is not intended to accuse anyone of any need for accountability. The article is simply an information based resource intended to consolidate information which has to do with online integrity. When it comes to accountability and online integrity, the people who need it know that they are in need of it. This is the same with regards to parents who know that their kids need accountability and restrictions with online usage. Regardless though, I believe that everyone should be informed on this subject matter due to the increased prevalence of internet ready mobile devices.