Children’s Internet Protection Act: Report
on the Effectiveness of Internet Protection Measures and Safety Policies
On August 15, 2003, NTIA released a report
pursuant to section 1703 of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA),
Pub.L.No. 106-554, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A-336 (2000), evaluating the effectiveness
of technology protection measures and safety policies used by educational
institutions. The Act requested NTIA to evaluate whether the currently available
Internet blocking or filtering technology protection measures and Internet
safety policies adequately address the needs of educational institutions.
CIPA also invited NTIA’s recommendations to Congress on how to foster the
development of technology protection measures that meet these needs. NTIA’s report concludes that the currently
available technology measures have the capacity to meet most of the needs
and concerns of educational institutions and makes the following recommendations:
1) technology vendors should offer training services to educational institutions
on specific features of their products; and 2) expand CIPA’s definition of
“technology protection measures” to include additional technologies in order
to encompass a wider array of technological measures to protect children from
inappropriate content.
Due to an inadvertent technical error, a portion of Appendix III did not
appear in the report. To view the corrected Appendix III, please see
the following link: Appendix
III
