Parents everywhere are concerned about the online safety and well-being of their children, and OSA is commited to helping parents to educate their children about the dangers they face online. One way to begin the discussion of online safety is to have an agreement between paprent and child, for this reason we would like to offer our Online Security Agreement for you to implement in your own home.

Telus, a major telephone company, announced recently that it was going to sell pornography to its cell phone subscribers. If it had proceeded, it would be the first in North America. There was a huge backlash and they canceled their plan. Other big telephone companies quickly distanced themselves from any move to sell porn to their cell phone customers.

“As more business information, content and customer data travels over these networks, the need for complying with data privacy regulations, protecting customer data and securely delivering subscription media will make data protection one of the hottest technology trends in 2007,” said Ron Willis, president and CEO of CipherOptics.

Law enforcement agencies are attempting to educate parents and other concerned citizens of the risks involved with their children’s use of the highly popular internet social networking site, MySpace.com.

Please require a password-protected login before allowing even free access to explicit adult content. We understand that selling porn is your business and we respect your right to make a legal living. But understand our legitimate concerns and work with us. You already have the “warning adult content” on your websites. Yet kids, who are not legal customers of your product, ignore the warning. So to prevent them from having direct access to explicit images, texts and sounds, the simplest way is to have a password-protected login. No more “free tours” before a visitor supplies basic information.