Parents have become more active in monitoring their children's online activity — the demand for parental control programs has grown by 20% over the year, according to the provider Dom.ru. These applications help restrict access to unwanted content, track the child's location, manage the time of using gadgets, and block the downloading of applications without permission.
The growing interest in such software is associated with an increase in cyber threats to minors: in six months, the number of fraudulent attacks on children has increased by 50%.
Using parental control programs is an important first step in protecting a child in the digital environment. And the demand for such solutions is really growing. Among the reasons is the increasingly early age of children who are bought their own gadgets
Experts note that parents use both built-in device functions and third-party applications to protect children from online risks. In addition to content control, programs for monitoring behavior in social networks and messengers, as well as antiviruses and filters, are popular.
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