Broadcasting & Cable gives a preview of the upcoming report on parental controls mandated by the Child Safe Viewing Act: The FCC’s report to Congress on the state of media-screening technologies, due by the end of this month, comes to two broad conclusions, but does not suggest any action items beyond opening an inquiry prompted [...]
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Sameer Hinduja guest blogs on InternetSafety.com on “Beating Cyberbullying” We continue our conversation with Sameer Hinduja, co-founder of the Cyberbullying Research Center and noted expert in the field. Today we’re going to be talking about what to do when a child seems to be involved in cyberbullying. Larry Magid on SafeKids.com reports on “Facebook lawsuit: [...]
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From the PFF blog: On July 27th, The Progress & Freedom Foundation hosted a Capitol Hill panel discussion entitled “Online Child Safety, Privacy, and Free Speech: An Overview of Challenges in Congress & the States.” The event featured remarks from: Parry Aftab, Executive Director, WiredSafety.org Todd Haiken, Senior Manager of Policy, Common Sense Media Jim [...]
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Marian Merritt talks about “Back To Cyberbullying – I mean, Back to School” For many middle school and high school children, back to school time isn’t just a time for new binders, pencils and clothes. It’s a time for the summer break from bullying, both cyber and physical, to end. Your children may not tell [...]
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This week saw the release of two interesting Internet surveys on online safety. On Monday, Common Sense Media released, “Is Social Networking Changing Childhood?” Common Sense Media today released the results of a national poll of teens and parents on social networking behaviors. The poll, conducted by The Benenson Strategy Group, illustrated that kids [...]
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Marian Merritt at Symantec asks “Wonder What Kids Are Searching Online? Well, Wonder No More! Kids have so much time on their hands in the summer and much of that time will be spent online. For parents who use OnlineFamily.Norton, the new and easy-to-use family safety service from the makers of Norton Internet Security, there’s [...]
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I’ve identified over 40 products marketed as parental controls. What I’ve found is that most Internet parental control products at their core are either filtering products that specialize in categorizing and blocking websites, or monitoring products that focus on creating a detailed record of Internet activity. There are some really good filters out there – [...]
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