Productivity controls restrict mobile data by blocking access (or restricting data bandwidth) to online services that have been categorised as:

• Adult
• Social Media
• Streaming Media
• Gambling

How are online services categorised?

Restrictions impact access to online services via browsers and apps via mobile data. These data restrictions are based on ‘blocklists’: lists of URLs categorised by type (e.g. streaming). These lists are compiled and managed by the Internet Filtering Database (IFD). The IFD provides “extensive and comprehensive web categorisation and threat intelligence”, based on domain, path, and page-level information. The lists are updated four times every day.

What’s included under each category?

 Adult

Restricts access to sexual and pornographic materials, categorised as:

• Adult Magazine/News
• Adult Search/Links
• Adult/Porn
• Child Abuse
• Fetish
• Nudity
• Sexual Expression(text)
• Sexual Services
• Adult/Porn

Social Media

Restricts access to social media, identified as:

• Facebook
• Facebook: Apps
• Facebook: Chat
• Facebook: Events
• Facebook: Games
• Facebook: Groups
• Facebook: Posting
• Facebook: Video Upload
• Social Networks in General
• TikTok
• Twitter
• Twitter: Follow
• Twitter: Posting
• YouTube
• YouTube: Sharing

Streaming Media

Restricts access to streaming media, categorised as:

• Music and Streaming Audio
• Streaming Media
• TikTok
• YouTube
• YouTube: Sharing

 Gambling

Restricts access to online gambling services, categorised as:

• Gambling in general
• Sweepstakes/Prizes