The Week in Online Safety, March 12, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence News U.K. - The hurt caused by private lives being made public, The Guardian, Mar. 10, 2012 U.S. – Are Social Networks Sexualizing Young Girls?, Shine, Mar. 9, 2012 U.S. - Temptation to overshare [...]
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The Week in Online Safety, March 12, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence News U.K. - The hurt caused by private lives being made public, The Guardian, Mar. 10, 2012 U.S. – Are Social Networks Sexualizing Young Girls?, Shine, Mar. 9, 2012 U.S. - Temptation to overshare [...]
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The Week in Online Safety, February 27, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence [Cross Posted from the blog I manage at work, Microsoft Privacy & Online Safety] U.S.- How Facebook Outsources Its Nudity Patrol, Forbes, February 22, 2012 U.S. – Teens Post ‘Am I Pretty or Ugly?’ [...]
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The Week in Online Safety, February 13, 2012 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence [Cross Posted from the blog I manage at work, Microsoft Privacy & Online Safety] News U.S. – Safer Internet Day focuses on Netsafety f or families, CNET, Feb. 7, 2012 U.S. - DSM-5, the [...]
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On December 1, 2011 I gave an hour-long presentation on “Safer Socializing on the Internet” to the AARP of Washington as part of an all-day “Get Connected” event in Spokane, Washington. This was a consumer presentation covering the basics of adult online safety, including how ensure your PC is patched and protected, and online safety [...]
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The Week in Online Safety, December 12, 2011 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence [Cross Posted from the blog I manage at work, Microsoft Privacy & Online Safety] News U.S. – When Children Text All Day, What Happens To Their Social Skills?, The Huffington Post, Dec. 9, 2011 [...]
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[Cross Posted from the blog I manage at work, Microsoft Privacy & Online Safety] The Week in Online Safety, September 26, 2011 A weekly global roundup of online safety news, policy developments, research, and influence News Australia – Bullying,violence, revenge: the dangers of antisocial networking laid bare for children, Sydney Morning Herald, Sep. 23, 2011 [...]
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[Cross posted to the Microsoft Privacy & Safety Blog] Today Microsoft released a new whitepaper that I authored for the company titled “Fostering Digital Citizenship,” along with a new Microsoft study about posting personal information online, and an Online Reputation Guide for teens. Fostering Digital Citizenship, discusses the company’s approach to the concept. So what [...]
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I’ve decided to rename and reinvent my website for the third time. I first launched this site in 1997 as FilteringFacts.org, my website about online safety. I stopped updating that site in 2000, and put it into archive until 2007, when I decided to revive it as a blog about online safety issues. Then in [...]
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For our first GetParentalControls.org product review roundup, we decided to test the most common type of parental controls, web filtering. We invited 20 companies listed in the GetParentalControls.org Product Guide to participate. Nine companies submitted products: Bit Defender Total Security; BrightFilter; BSecure Online; CyberPatrol; K9 Web Protection; Net Nanny; Norton Online Family; Optenet; and Safe [...]
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