A new survey by the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and the University of Michigan Child Health Evaluation and Research finds that about half of US parents use Internet parental control software. A June, 2009 survey found 55% use them, and 2005 Pew survey recorded 55%. What’s new is the rise in the use of monitoring [...]
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Larry Magid at CNET reports: Google has long allowed parents a SafeSearch filtering setting that keeps kids from using the search engine to find inappropriate sites like those with explicit sexual images or text. The problem was that kids could easily change those settings. Starting Wednesday, however, the company is allowing parents to lock those [...]
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Marian Merritt has a “Recap of This Year’s Family Online Safety Institute Annual Conference” Not thinking of kids as victims. This is new thinking indeed for the Internet safety world. We know that for children who are victimized by online predators, often these are the same kids displaying risk factors for predation in the real [...]
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