Sky Broadband (BSkyB) has chosen to adopt a new online child protection system from Crisp, which will help to provide its "Anti-Grooming Engine" (AGE) software to Sky and non-Sky customers visiting the Sky.com website.

The software, known officially as 'Sky Parental Alert', works by interacting with the users PC's Internet activities - monitoring conversations that take place in Instant Messaging programmes, chat rooms, social networking sites and online games.

When Sky Parental Alert detects a potentially inappropriate conversation, it will alert parents by email or text message (SMS). However, only the parts of conversations the system identifies as inappropriate or potentially dangerous can be seen by parents, hence protecting young people’s privacy:


Sky Parental Alert can be downloaded from Sky's Security Centre at http://www.sky.com/securitycentre .