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The grim reality is that the Internet, along with its’ messages which undermine our traditional value system, has penetrated into the realm of the “kodesh”, the home. We may not like this fact, but we are naïve to think that it is not a fact.
Given this reality, every thinking person must ask himself: What can I do to protect myself, and my children, from this unwanted intruder?
Netspark has designed a revolutionary new product that will make the Internet a place that is safe for your family.
No longer will you have to choose between avoiding the Internet altogether, or surfing the Internet while turning a blind eye to the morally offensive pictures and messages contained therein.
Netspark has created a new mobile app called Netspark Mobile. This app transforms any Android-based Smartphone or Tablet into a safe, child-friendly device.
“This is a real revolution,” said Rabbi Moshe Weiss, the founder of Netspark. In Israel, Netspark, and their subsidiaries Internet Rimon and Internet Etrog, are popular brand names in the religious community that have become synonymous with surfing the Internet safely.
Rabbi Weiss believes that “this is a significant challenge facing the Jewish world, and in fact, to the entire world. We do not even begin to understand the profound impact that unfiltered Internet will have for our children and future generations. Our children should be able to access the Internet safely, without worrying about exposure to content that contradicts our basic system of values.”
“Across the world,” he continues, “we already have more than 10,000 installations of Netspark Mobile in a very short time. 10,000 users, adults and children, can now surf the Internet with peace of mind and with the knowledge that our technology will provide them with the best protection possible.”
What is the exciting new breakthrough?
Netspark has already been the trailblazers in this field in Israel. Its’ subsidiaries, Internet Rimon and Internet Etrog are the only Internet Service Providers that provide real online filtering to your home computer. Customers consistently testify that Internet Rimon and Internet Etrog allow every member of their family, or workplace, to surf the Internet freely, without the dangers associated with exposure to unwanted material.
Netspark Mobile will apply this same technology to mobile units such as Smartphones and Tablets. Smartphone users can now go anywhere and feel safe knowing that Netspark Mobile will offer them protection against the bombardment of morally problematic material on the Internet.
What is the need for Netspark Mobile?
The Internet has reshaped our society and our personal lives in profound ways. When it first burst on the scene, no one could have possibly predicted that the Internet would become such an absolutely integral part of society. Today, available on any Smartphone, any person, including our children, has the world literally at his fingertips, including unfiltered access to social media networks, and other harmful and inappropriate material.
“The statistics show that in the Western world more than 75% of children between 10-15 use a Smartphone at least once a day. Approximately 37% of these children actually own a Smartphone themselves,” Rabbi Weiss points out. “Last year, 42% of children between the ages of 10-17 were exposed to offensive content at least once, even though 70% claimed that they hadn’t intended to view that specific content. Do you know what it is to be a parent or a teacher faced with these statistics?!”
Even responsible parents who have installed Internet Rimon, Internet Etrog, or other filters on their home computer networks, cannot protect their children when they leave the home and they have access to unsecured WiFi networks.
Until now.
“In the past two years, we have been working on a service to allow safe Internet access to a wider audience. Those efforts have yielded fruits with the introduction of the Netspark Mobile app.”
How does Netspark Mobile differ from other mobile safety Internet systems?
The difference between Netspark Mobile and other systems is simple, and profound. Other systems attack the symptom of the problem, and they try and filter the WiFi or the network that the phone is linked into. Netspark Mobile attacks the root of the problem by securing the Smartphone itself. Netspark Mobile works on any Android Smartphone.
This simple difference has two huge benefits. First, this means that you have protection no matter where you are: outside your home, in school or the workplace, or even on the other side of town. Your Smartphone remains secure.
Second, other safety systems detect objectionable content on a website and then block the entire website or that specific web page. They divide content into binary categories of “acceptable” or “unacceptable” content, into “black or “white” lists. This discourages many people from using safety protocols because they are frustrated with the overly aggressive blocking of content.
Netspark Mobile’s unique technology is capable of extracting only the problematic content while leaving the important content for which you were searching. It is sensitive enough to intelligently “review” the content and decide what to reveal and what simply is not suitable, based on the level of protection you have chosen. The technology is so sophisticated that it can even remove an offensive photograph from a single page, while allowing the viewer to see the remainder of the page. Therefore, Internet users are free to surf the ‘Net unsupervised, while being able to be thoroughly protected from offensive content. “That’s the goal!” Rabbi Weiss proclaims.
Is it easy to use?
Netspark Mobile was designed for easy use. The management system for the phone is simple to activate and easy to navigate, even for those people who don’t feel so comfortable with new technological devices.
Parents and school administrators will be delighted to know that each Smartphone can be managed remotely. The parent or administrator responsible for the phone can adjust the settings to receive different kinds of notifications. And, for those computer-savvy children who may be tempted to circumvent the app, the management system is protected by state-of-the-art security protocols that effectively block any attempt to bypass or remove the Safe Mode. In the Android 5.0 and above, you can also turn on a protection option that can’t be removed even if the phone is reset to the factory settings.
Who is Netspark Mobile suitable for?
Netspark Mobile is suitable for anyone with an Android-based Smartphone or Tablet. Parents will want this app not only for themselves, but for their children. Yeshivot, seminaries and schools will want to encourage their students who have Smartphones to install this application.
Netspark Mobile offers a cheap, effective option that protects you, your children, your students, your employees and your company from unwanted and undesirable material of the Internet.
The Netspark Mobile app is available as a free download on Google Play. Try it for one week for free. We are convinced that after using the app and seeing the protection it provides, you will choose to leave the app on your Smartphone.
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7 Responses
Only for mobile? what about PC?
Can it protect the parents too?
Sounds great!
Could you please make a IOS version too.
This doesn’t say anywhere which rabbonim have given their haskama to this. I think that any yerei shamayim should first check that respected rabbonim are ok with this.
I signed up, the filtering, if you set it up with a partner and set everything to Strict it seems from the first look OK.
And as @M said I did not notice anything from this service that showed that it was personalized for Jews, and no Rabbonim are whatsoever mentioned.
Works really great for me. I installed the app last week and I see that it just works better. Even when I had to change things for my work – it continues to filter the content. It is also cheaper and more efficient than what I knew.
The only thing that bothered me is that they asked me to put my credit card even for the trial period.