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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Which is better at protecting children online: technology or education? This may seem like an odd question to some, but it’s one that gets asked in online safety settings. What I find interesting about this idea is that in the worlds of online privacy and online security — the technological/social problems that are the most [...]
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I’ve been following the case Bradburn v. North Central Regional Library District since it was filed on Nov 11, 2006, in Washington Eastern District Court. The case involves patrons of the North Central Regional Library e suing the library over the library’s Internet policy, which filters access for adults. The plaintiffs seek to order the [...]
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iKeep Safe tells us the story of “Cynthia Moreno| Colinga MySpace Rant Published in Local Newspaper” After visiting her hometown of Colinga, Cynthia Moreno posted an unofficial complaint to the city on her MySpace page. Her old high school principal found the rant, and sent it to the editor of the local newspaper. It was [...]
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They’re everywhere! From today’s New York Times: Parental Controls Come to the Car By John R. Quain John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times Ford MyKey allows parents to limit teenagers’ behavior behind the wheel, without being in the car with them. Think of it as PG-rated driving: MyKey, a new technology system that [...]
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