EXAMINE REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF SECURITY STANDARDS AND COMPLIANCE
Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is a bill that the United States Congress proposed to limit children's exposure to pornography and explicit content online. Once the bill was passed the Congress required schools and libraries to E-Rate discounts on Internet access and internal connections to purchase and use a technology protection measure on every computer connected to the Internet. These conditions also applied to a small subset of grants authorized through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).
In order for the schools and libraries that use the E-Rate discount is to have an internet safety policy that will include technology protection measure for each computer with Internet access. They must be able to block or filter to pictures that are obscene, child pornography, and/or harmful to minors. This only applies when access my minors. Adults can disable the technology protection measure while using the computers. Schools or libraries that don’t use the technology protection measure on received discount for telecommunication. If the schools or libraries use the technology protection measure must hold at least one public hearing to address the internet safety policy. Below you will find the items that need to be address during the hearing:
• Access by minors to inappropriate matter on the Internet;
• The safety and security of minors when using electronic mail, chat rooms and other forms of
• direct electronic communications;
• Unauthorized access, including so-called “hacking,” and other unlawful activities by minors
• online;
• Unauthorized disclosure, use, and dissemination of personal information regarding minors; and
• Measures restricting minors' access to materials harmful to them.
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