Tiscali: Protect your Children

Traditional online child protection tools are based on blocks, locks and word filters. These technologies have been in place for years. Yet, the problem of child grooming by abusers online keeps growing.

Scanning for dirty words is not enough. There are no easy answers. Groomers are cunning. So Crisp checks over two hundred factors, from sentence patterns to typing speed. And it learns by comparing millions of samples. There's only one way to keep children safe from the threat of grooming without barring them from online contact. Crisp can read between the lines to spot grooming patterns and alerts parents to what's going on.

What does Crisp Do?
The service is summarised below:

• Once Crisp is installed (a quick, simple download), it will upload instant messaging conversations from supported instant messenger clients on your computer to Crisps Anti-Grooming Engine
• Crisp will monitor and protect a young person's instant message accounts 24/7, by looking for grooming patterns as conversations develop
• When Crisp detects a potential grooming conversation, it will alert parents by email and/or text message
• Only the parts of conversations Crisp identifies as potentially dangerous can be seen by the parent, thus protecting the young person's privacy


How does Crisp spot grooming behaviour?
Online child protection based on blocks, locks and word filters does not work. These technologies have been in place for years, but the grooming problem keeps on growing.

Crisp takes a completely different approach. It detects grooming by recognizing the ways groomers behave. It looks at how they manipulate online relationships, what they say and how they say it. It looks at sexual content and punctuation, aggression levels and sentence length, typing speed and vocabulary. And it compares all these elements with dynamic, minutely detailed profiles of real-life groomers and real-life boys and girls.

Crisp works from a huge, constantly updated database, learning as it goes along, rather than matching pre-set patterns. If the online predators change their tactics and behaviour, this is reflected straight away in adjustments to the way Crisp assesses its threat ratings. If youngsters start visiting new social networking sites or using different slang, these changes will quickly modify the Anti-Grooming Engines idea of what a typical 10-year-old boy or a 14-year-old girl might be like. Groomers can't beat the system or outwit the algorithms, as that would be like trying to dodge their own shadows. Over the years, the more relationships Crisp analyses, the smarter it gets at detecting the bad ones.

How is Crisp software different from any other on the market?
The way the product has been designed is completely different to existing child protection software. It focuses on protecting young people from external threats, rather than on moderating what they can and cannot do on the net. The end result provides an experience which gives young people what they want, freedom and privacy. However, Crisp also gives parents what they need, peace of mind.

Do I need to install Crisp on every PC in my home?
Your subscription to Tiscali Child Protection from Crisp allows you to install it on EVERY PC in the house - regardless of how many you have; you only pay the same fee.

In fact, we recommend that you do this so that Crisp can protect your children whichever PC they use to access the internet. Once Crisp is installed all the PC's in your house will then report back to your online Control Panel and enable you to better understand your children's online activity as well as any resulting alerts from one page. Simple, but remember, if you have a PC in the house that does not have installed Crisp on it then it isn't protected