Information that is being communicated from information sources, such as servers, through a data network to consumer processing devices is filtered by the data network. Filter rules are associated with the consumer processing devices. Information is received at the data network from at least one of the information sources that is addressed to one of the consumer processing devices. The information is filtered at the data network based on the filter rules associated with the addressed consumer processing device to generate filtered information. The filtered information is then communicated from the data network to the addressed consumer processing device.