You buy your kids a modern e-book thinking this electronic wonder will encourage your kid to read more. Then you become suddenly surprised at just how much time they actually spend using it. You would have bought one years ago had they taken such an interest in reading, but then you find out the truth--they are using their Nook and Kindle to access pornography.
KY3 reports:
E-readers, digital tablets, and smartphones are opening a world of knowledge for some families. However, these same mobile devices are also unveiling something unexpected.
"It's all access, all the time, and I guess we stopped thinking about our kids," said Pam Hanner. This Omaha mother, along with Phillp Faugno, is concerned about the Nook e-reader they bought her son.
The tool allows you to purchase digital books and read them. However, many of them, including the Nook, include web browsers. As a result, Pam and Phillip said their son encountered explicit adult websites on the device.
Pam was all the more shocked to find the Nook does not have built-in parental controls to block content parents consider offensive.
"We were disappointed, very disappointed that there was no way," Pam explained.
So, she contacted the Nook's maker, Barnes & Noble. When asked about parental controls, she claimed the company told her, "Not only do we have nothing in place, we have no plans in the future." Pam explained the response as "very sad."
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