Cox helps parents keep track of childrens' online activities

Cox Communications announced today that it will offer a new parental control functionality that makes it easy to monitor children's online activity with daily Web surfing reports. These Web history logs show domains or Web sites that children have visited or attempted access while in the household, and flags which Web sites the parents have deemed inappropriate by the customizable filter settings. This new feature will be available to all Cox High-Speed Internet customers this summer.

The Web history reports can be created for multiple children and sent via a daily e-mail to one or both parents' cox.net account. The Web history report lists the pages each child has tried to access and which sites were allowed and/or blocked based on the filtering levels. Cox has offered customizable filtering levels for all children in the household since 2004.

In addition to the daily e-mail, parents will be able to use the Security Suite software to access Web history information in a number of formats. For example, Web history can be viewed for all users or individual users, for all recorded sessions or specific browser sessions.