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'''Smart Sheriff''' is a [[cybersecurity]] app.<ref name=bbc2015-06-15/><ref name=HelpNetSecurity2015-05-20/><ref name=nakedsecurity2023-05-20/><ref name=KoreaTimes2015-05-21/> | '''Smart Sheriff''' is a [[cybersecurity]] app.<ref name=bbc2015-06-15/><ref name=HelpNetSecurity2015-05-20/><ref name=nakedsecurity2023-05-20/><ref name=KoreaTimes2015-05-21/><ref name=theregister2015-05-19/> | ||
In 2015 the ''[[BBC News]]'' reported that the government of [[South Korea]] ''"ruled that people under 19 who buy a smartphone must install an app that monitors their web activity."''<ref name=bbc2015-06-15/> South Korea had prepared the Smart Sheriff app, one approved to perform the monitoring it required. Other apps can provide this service, but the Smart Sheriff app is provided for free.<ref name=HelpNetSecurity2015-05-20/> | In 2015 the ''[[BBC News]]'' reported that the government of [[South Korea]] ''"ruled that people under 19 who buy a smartphone must install an app that monitors their web activity."''<ref name=bbc2015-06-15/> South Korea had prepared the Smart Sheriff app, one approved to perform the monitoring it required. Other apps can provide this service, but the Smart Sheriff app is provided for free.<ref name=HelpNetSecurity2015-05-20/> | ||
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''[[Naked Security]]'' reports that, unlike nations like Japan, which also require the availability of apps for parents to monitor their children's online activity, there is no option for parents to "opt-out".<ref name=nakedsecurity2023-05-20/> | ''[[Naked Security]]'' reports that, unlike nations like Japan, which also require the availability of apps for parents to monitor their children's online activity, there is no option for parents to "opt-out".<ref name=nakedsecurity2023-05-20/> | ||
''[[The Register]]'' reports the app was written to particular bar youths from viewing [[pornography]].<ref name=theregister2015-05-19/> | |||
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| url = | | url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/19/korean_law_mandates_spyware_installed_on_teenagers_smartphones_and_it_aint_north_korean/ | ||
| title = | | title = South Korea mandates spyware installation on teenagers' smartphones | ||
| work = | | work = [[The Register]] | ||
| author = | | author = Alexander J Martin | ||
| date = | | date = 2015-05-19 | ||
| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20230531055428/https://www.theregister.com/2015/05/19/korean_law_mandates_spyware_installed_on_teenagers_smartphones_and_it_aint_north_korean/ | |||
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| quote = | | quote = One particular monitoring app called Smart Sheriff was funded and developed by the South Korean government with the declared intent of blocking children's access to pornography. | ||
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Revision as of 01:13, 5 January 2024
Smart Sheriff is a cybersecurity app.[1][2][3][4][5]
In 2015 the BBC News reported that the government of South Korea "ruled that people under 19 who buy a smartphone must install an app that monitors their web activity."[1] South Korea had prepared the Smart Sheriff app, one approved to perform the monitoring it required. Other apps can provide this service, but the Smart Sheriff app is provided for free.[2]
The BBC reports the app monitors the youthful smartphone owners' web searches for terms like "threat", "run away from home", "pregnancy", "kill", "rape", "don't want to live", "suicide" and "crazy".[1][4]
After the monitoring and reporting version of the app is installed on the youth's smartphone, a control version of the app is installed on their parents' smartphone.[2] It provides mechanisms for the their parent to choose to block access to websites. It also allows the parent to set time limits on the youth's use of the apps on their smartphone
Help Net Security magazine reports some South Korean youths plan to nurse their existing phones until they turn 19, because they were not built to require the government mandated monitoring.[2] In South Korea market forces mean that almost all phones run the Android operating system, and no apps existed for Apple smartphones.[1] So youths planning to avoid the monitoring had the option to buy an Apple smartphone.
Naked Security reports that, unlike nations like Japan, which also require the availability of apps for parents to monitor their children's online activity, there is no option for parents to "opt-out".[3]
The Register reports the app was written to particular bar youths from viewing pornography.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Stephen Evans. South Korea provokes teenage smartphone privacy row, BBC News, 2015-06-15. Retrieved on 2024-01-05. “Parents will be able to to see what their kids are up to online and block access to "undesirable" sites. Failure to install such an app means the phone won't work.” mirror
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Zeljka Zorz. South Korean minors to be monitored via smartphone spying apps, Help Net Security magazine, 2015-05-20. Retrieved on 2015-08-08. “What does such an app monitor, exactly? Among the 15 approved apps is SmartCOP (or Smart Sheriff) by Korean app maker Moiba, whose development was funded by the South Korean government and is distributed for free by it.”
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Lisa Vaas. South Korea mandates spyware on teens' phones, Naked Security, 2023-05-20. Retrieved on 2015-06-16. “The Associated Press reports that the country's Korea Communications Commission, which has sweeping powers covering the telecommunications industry, last month passed a law mandating spyware on the mobile phones of anybody under the age of 18. Unlike countries with similar laws, such as Japan, parents can't opt out, regardless of any (well-founded) privacy concerns.” mirror
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 John-Patrick Gerard Thackeray. Spyware for teenagers, Korea Times, 2015-05-21. Retrieved on 2015-06-17. “The government has funded the 'Smart Sheriff' app that Korean firm MOIBA developed. It was designed to block harmful material, such as pornography and gambling. But it has a built-in key logger that detects more than 1,100 trigger words and phrases such as 'kill,' 'rape,' 'don't want to live,' and 'suicide.'”
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Alexander J Martin. South Korea mandates spyware installation on teenagers' smartphones, The Register, 2015-05-19. Retrieved on 2015-06-16. “One particular monitoring app called Smart Sheriff was funded and developed by the South Korean government with the declared intent of blocking children's access to pornography.”
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