TrueCare lets parents monitor kids online

SCHAUMBURG TrueCare LLC, a provider of a comprehensive Internet monitoring service for parents, today announced that it is offering parents 1,000 free trial hours of child monitoring protection as part of its promotion for the TrueCare service.

“Online privacy and protection from the dangers of the Internet is a fairly new issue and only now are parents starting to understand it, Dave Barker, spokesman for TrueCare, said in a statement. “As parents we need to quickly understand the fact that our children can be in danger from cyberbullies and predators even when they are at home.

TrueCare was designed so that parents can monitor a child's social media activity no matter where they access the Internet, at home, a friend's house, school or even their cell phone. TrueCare searches the child's Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts for keywords that may indicate potentially dangerous posts. When an inappropriate post is found parents are alerted by an e-mail containing the full content and context of the post. The parent can then determine if any action is required, the company said.

TrueCare automatically searches for keywords in the categories of sexual content, violence, depression, bullying, alcohol and drugs. However, parents can customize the list to alert them to information that relates directly to their child, such as being alerted when a child discloses personally identifiable information like their address or phone number.