On the iKeepSafe blog, “Hemanshu Nigam, Chief Security Officer For MySpace on Discussing Cyber Safety with Teens and Children” It’s all a matter of perspective – just like when you think about approaching your teens about safety and privacy. In your mind, you might be wondering whether your child will think you’re intruding in their [...]
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On Friday, June 12, 2009 FOSI held a panel in the Capitol to discuss whether it’s possible to legislate safety. The panelists included Jason Tuber from the Office of Sen. Menendez, Mercedes Salem from the Office of Rep. Sanchez and Adam Thierer with the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF). Panelists compared recent online safety legislation, [...]
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Anne Collier at Net Family News gives us a “Heads up on Free Realms chat” Chat has always been a problematic piece of the Internet where child safety’s concerned – some would say that’s putting it mildly! So it’s a bit surprising that Sony included chat in its new Free Realms virtual world for kids. [...]
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Marian Merritt at Symantec blogs on “YouTube Is Top Kid Destination; How To Enjoy It Safely” Here’s a page with a video on Community Guidelines for YouTube along with flagging guidelines for inappropriate content (videos, not comments). Any user with an account can flag as inappropriate a video that includes violent, sexual, or hate promoting [...]
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Marsali Hancock at iKeepSafe blogs about the “NTIA Online Safety and Technology Working Group,” June 3, 2009 the Online Safety and Technology Working Group (OSTWG) began. The purpose of the group is to make recommendations for better online safety for children, specifically in regards to education, labeling, and parental control technology. Anne Collier at ConnectSafely.org [...]
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Livia Web Protection Blog gives “4 Steps to Help Keep Your Children Safe Online:” 1. Place the computer in an open area of the home 2. Develop and discuss a set of rules for online activity 3. Pay attention to what your children are doing 4. Educate yourself and share your knowledge Anne Collier at [...]
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Parental Control vendor announced a free electronic book “Surfing Among the Cyber Sharks” available here: CyberPatrol LLC, a leading provider of tools to protect people online, announced today the release of Surfing Among the Cyber Sharks, a guidebook on Internet safety for parents, written by security veterans Vince Schiavone and Bob Kessinger with contributions from [...]
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Anne Collier at NetFamilyNews blogs about “Virtual World Populations Skyrocket” At 27% growth, children aged 5-9 will be the biggest growth sector of a global virtual world population that will grow from 186 million now to 640 million by 2015, Virtual Worlds News reports. Citing just-released figures from market researchers Strategy Analytics, the report says [...]
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From Fox Business News: For the fifth consecutive year, Cox Communications has partnered with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children(R) (NCMEC) and John Walsh, host of America’s Most Wanted, to inform parents of the potential dangers of the Internet and provide ways they can protect their kids online. Under the auspices of Cox’s [...]
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Marsali Hancock of iKeepSafe blogs about “Managing Issues of Trust and Privacy and Parenting Online:” Marsali Hancock often reminds parents who worry about ethical issues of privacy online that the internet is called “The World Wide Web.” Just as parents bear responsibility for their child’s off-line behavior, they also have a responsibility for their child’s [...]
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