Welcoming the Recommendations many times expressed by the European Union, Gestweb Research S.r.l. Company, together with Onlus Safety World Wide Web Foundation have elaborated, designed and created the childKEY technology which represents
the true and only system which satisfies and make their own all the postulates of the Differentiated Web- Surfing.
The architecture of the childKEY technology is based on its ability to make a link between the requested web page and the age of the (tagged-age) user who requests it (Age Sender functions).

To do this is necessary that the user’s profile is recognisable at the moment in which the connection to the web is made or, in any case, before surfing begins. Such recognition is made possible by an identifier of connection associated to the user’s age that has to key-in and submit at connection.

The action of identification carried-out by the new childKEY Network works in combination with Internet providers who have by contract signed on with the childKEY service.

Such contract provides the use of childKEY identifiers capable of providing a differentiated web-surfing, for adult and minor, based on an identifier of connection and issued to each family component.

When a connection identifier (password) is typed in and corresponds to that of a minor, the childKEY authenticator routes the connection through an assisted surfing, activating Age Sender, Time Limit Control and Total Privacy, as well as, Parsing functions and Text Analysis.

With Age Sender, allows remote serves to recognize the age of the connected user (sole worldwide technology) therefore making providers of content and web hosts legally punishable.

Adapting themselves to the childKEY technology, web sites’ managers, can easily “moralize” their work by applying on their web pages a simple declaration (childKEY Metadata) concerning visualization and non-visualization by minors of the content placed on the Web. It is the duty of the Safety World Wide Web Foundation to solicit for such declaration and verify that it is correctly executed.

A widespread use of this technology will modify the way Providers, Search Engines and online content suppliers operate, thus conforming to the criteria of their responsibilities towards minors as expected by society. Differentiated Web Surfing, a precaution in action, is the only measure of its kind available today and respecting the opinion of the Supreme Court of the Unites States n. 03-218 dated June 29, 2004.

The childKEY technology has also been redesigned and integrated into KEYstudent, similar technology created specifically for schools, libraries and youth centers where the need to protect young web surfers is also a concern.

The technology designed provides the use of a software packet (KEYfamily) in the Provider’s server which is capable of managing a high level of security to guarantee minor’s Internet accesses while keeping a total transparency for an adult’s surfing.