CIPA - Children's Internet Protection Act

CIPA imposes blocking, filtering and monitoring requirements on organizations that demand on federal funding for Internet access. These rules are designed to ensure safe online experiences for minors. CleanBrowsing provides the technology needed to ensure this can be done at scale across your entire organization.

Comply with CIPA

About CIPA

The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was enacted by the US Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children's access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet (specifically pornography). CIPA imposes requirements on both schools and public libraries that receive discounts for Internet access or internal connections through the E-rate program – a program that makes certain communications services and products more affordable for eligible schools and libraries. The latest updates to this rule were made in 2011. If you are a school or public library you can find more details here: https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/childrens-internet-protection-act

Expand Your Internet Safety Policy with CleanBrowsing

While CIPA has to be ceritified by the school or library, CleanBrowsing can be used as part of the technical stack to help demonstrate compliance.

CleanBrowsing provides protection measures that block or filter Internet access to pictures that are: (a) obscene; (b) child pornography; or (c) harmful to minors (for computers that are accessed by minors). This is a specific CIPA requirement designed to ensure safe online experiences for students. CleanBrowsing can also be used to monitor the online activities of minors, another CIPA requirement.

CleanBrowsing and CIPA Requirements

Block, or Filter, Internet Access

CleanBrowsing offers both: blocking and filtering features via it's DNS content filtering service. Schools and libraries have the option to use predefined filters, or create their own rules. Features include:

Add and remove domains via the custom whitelist and blacklist feature.
Filter content according to predefined, or custom, rules.
Easily select from 19 predefined filters (e.g., Pornography, Gaming, Social Media, etc..)

Monitor Online Activity

CleanBrowsing provides a robust monitoring platform. Via its dashboard, a network administrator is able to quickly identify, and monitor all activity on its network.

Profile feature allows an organization to differentiate between minors and other users.
Easily identify what profile the requests are coming from.
Monitor all devices connected to the network in aggregrate.

Pornography and Obscene Content

One of the key things the US federal governemnt is concerned about is pornograhpic, obscene, or other similar content that is found to be inappropriate for minors. CleanBrowsing is the market leader in its ability to detect and strip this content from your network.

The system allows a network administrator to perform the following functions:

Test our effectiveness via Free filters, specifically the Family filter.
Expand Known Adult / Pornographic content domains with Mixed Content filters (e.g., Reddit)
Deploy mitigation for bypasses (e.g., Torrents, VPN and Proxy applications)

Enable Safe Mode Features

CleanBrowsing provides the most comprehensive deployment of safe mode features for platforms like Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and many other service providers. This is done in an effort to ensure the safest browsing experience for minors.

Enable and Disable search engines that don't offer safe search features.
Deploy, and differentiate, between Safe Search and Mode on Google Search and YouTube.
Leverage safe mode across any plaforms that allow it (e.g., Vimeo, YouTube, TikTok, etc..).