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Filtering and content labelling

In order to fight against illegal content the Safer Internet Programme funds projects that aim at increasing the effectiveness of the existing filtering and monitoring software, as well as at developing new ways of labelling content.

Currently the Safer Internet Programme is funding the SIP-BENCH II project for benchmarking of filtering tools and services.

The purpose of this study is to help end users (notably parents and child carers) to choose the most appropriate parental control tool that best fits their needs. This will be done by means of an expert assessment of products, tools and services that allow users to control children's access to inappropriate content online. As a result of each benchmarking cycle, a ranking list will be produced to help end users in the decision making process. The project will review of parental control software every 6 months until the end of 2012 and results will be public.

Results of the 4th benchmarking cycle were released on 4 July 2012

Completed projects

As far as filtering projects are concerned PEGI Online and the previous SIP-BENCH study are the latest projects that were funded and whose results aim at providing more information and guidance to parents, teachers and carers regarding the risks their children may encounter online; Quatro Plus was the latest funded project for content labelling.

See full list of completed projects