See Also - Say hello to Kiddle: the child-protecting search engine
11 Apr 2016 at 10:05, Jane Fae When it comes to seeking a magic bullet that will protect children from the evils of the internet, the first casualty is all too often common sense. So it appears in respect of the latest in a long line of child-friendly projects – Kiddle – which launched itself on to the scene a little over a month ago as a self-proclaimed “child-friendly search engine”.
Because behind the cuddly front end and the claims that key search results were handpicked by editors lay a rather more awkward reality: that Kiddle also allowed access to a service that allows users to search the internet anonymously – and in the process, it certainly circumvented the Google safe search standard, much touted as the reason why Kiddle was safe for children in the first place.
Nor did it take much effort to work this out. A computer games programmer, known within the industry as Delia Venus Wyn, explained:
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