We’re excited to have Isaac Jacobson on the podcast for this episode. He’s a good friend of Inger’s and a serious expert when it comes to protecting children on the internet. He has 20 plus years of experience working in emerging technologies, ranging from music database services, patented delivery of content online and in retail, and semantic search technologies and app development revolving around transactions with person to person contact validation. Isaac explains that all kinds of apps often have hidden links in places such as the terms and conditions that will lead the user to another server or location where the internet can be browsed, or more links can be found and followed. So parents need to be more aware of the loopholes their kids can and often will find in apps that are seemingly innocent for the kids to use.

Secondary systems and recognizing them 2:14
Understanding apps and the filter 3:18
What parents can do and why tablets are useful 8:47
Isaac’s son being contacted through Instagram and meeting some bad people 14:02
What percentage of predators just disappear when threatened 23:43
Tracking and tracing 29:41
What we can do 35:18
How parents can protect their kids online 37:44
Safe devices and services parents can look at 42:10

“So I urge every parent to open up the privacy policy in the terms and conditions on all those apps and look at those links, and click on them and see where they go. If they end at just a dead web page, that’s one thing, but if they end at a Facebook page, or they end at a server, or they can go to other links. So once you go from there, you can hit multiple links that have all sorts of different things. I think that is something that parents don’t normally look at.” 6:10