Router-only rule assumed to cover foreign Wi-Fi or a hotspot

Detection

The plan has no guidance for school, travel, friends’ homes or other carers’ networks.

Fix (technical)

eSafety directs parents to protect devices accessed in others’ care; Saferinternet.at identifies device, provider and application layers. Check the actual device-level controls rather than assuming a home-router policy applies elsewhere. [esafety-parental-controls; saferinternet-at-technical-controls]

Fix (relational)

Agree what the child should do when a site, chat or purchase request appears away from home.

Residual risk

No inspected source quantified the effect of a specific hotspot on a specific control.

Sources

  • esafety-parental-controls

  • saferinternet-at-technical-controls