Tiscali has announced that it will offer customers technology to to offer its customers protection from dangerous online relationships.

The ISP has partnered up with online safety company Crisp in a bid to fight child grooming. It uses technology which they claim gives far better protection than traditional website-locking, blocking and word filters.
It analyses the content of online conversations to indentify inappropriate relationships that are initiated by predators wanting to groom, and potentially abuse, children. It also looks at sexual content, punctuation, aggression levels and sentence length, typing speed and vocabulary. Crisp compares all these elements with dynamic, minutely-detailed profiles of real-life groomers and genuine children of a variety of ages. Any potential grooming will be notified to parents either via a text message or email.

Crisp says that the software was independently tested by Cambridge University researchers and found to be 98.4 percent effective in identifying inappropriate relationships.
It will be available by a subscription service for £3.50 a month or £42 a year and will be available from March of this year.