Development of an Application for Parental Control of WhatsApp on Android Mobile Devices

This paper proposes the development of a parental control application for Android mobile phones, with the aim of minimizing risks and preventing threats against minors from materializing. The application is based on WhatsApp sender and receiver messages, and then, through an internal process in the mobile, send them to a central server where they are analyzed and classified according to the text of the conversation that the child is maintaining and according to threats that is detected is to say sex, drugs and bullying, the application sends an informative alert to their parents for the respective parental control. In this process a natural language processing analysis is performed using a semantic classification algorithm.