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
• New: File Sharing
• New: Entertainment
• New: Mature
• New: Illicit
• New: Grotesque
• New: Gaming

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

New: File Sharing

Restricts access to file sharing services, protecting corporate data and blocking remote access to online services categorised as:

• File Sharing
• File Transfer

New: Entertainment

Restricts access to online entertainment services. The Entertainment block restricts mobile data access to services categorised under streaming music and online media, and online games.

• Gambling in general
• Games
• Music and Streaming Audio
• Online games

New: Mature

Restricts access to mature online services. The Mature restriction is different to the Adult restriction in that it prevents services from accessing a broad range of online services via mobile data that include mature themes, including services categorised under violence, illegal drugs, weapons and sexual services:

• Abortion
• Adult Magazine/News
• Adult Search/Links
• Adult/Porn
• Adult/Porn
• Alcoholic Products
• Ammunition
• CBD & Hemp Products
• Child Abuse
• Costume Play/Enjoyment
• Dating
• Drinking
• Fetish
• Fireworks
• Gambling in general
• Grotesque
• Guns
• Hate/Slander
• Illegal Activities
• Illegal Drugs
• Knives
• Marijuana
• Nudity
• Occult
• Self-Harm
• Sex Education
• Sexual Expression(text)
• Sexual Services
• Smoking
• Swimsuits & Lingerie
• Terrorism/Extremists
• Violence
• Violence/Suicide
• Weapons

New: Illicit

Restricts access to illicit and illegal online services, categorised as:

• Hate/Slander
• Illegal Activities
• Illegal Drugs
• Terrorism/Extremists
• Weapons

New: Grotesque

Restricts access to grotesque online services (i.e. gore), categorised as:

• Grotesque

New: Gaming

Restricts access to online gaming services, categorised as:

• Gaming