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Online Safety This Summer(0)
Spring is here and before you know it summer will be upon us. For parents, that means keeping kids busy during their long break from school. Though summer activities abound, chances are that children will have a lot of opportunity to spend time online without adult supervision. Now’s the time to put a game plan [...]
Full Story»Protect Your Child’s Photos from Facebook’s Facial Recognition Feature
Facebook just launched an automatic facial recognition feature that makes photo tagging easier, but could also put your child’s photos at risk of being automatically tagged, exposing their privacy. Facebook’s tagging feature allows your child’s friends to tag pictures that your child appears in, and identifies your child automatically by suggesting to their friends that [...]
Facebook Ought to Allow Children Under 13
by Larry Magid Today’s guest blogger is Larry Magid, co-director of ConnectSafely.org and a member of the SafetyWeb Product Advisory Council. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comment that children under 13 should be allowed on Facebook didn’t surprise me. When I asked him about this a year ago, he told me, “It’s something that we’ve [...]
Why Parents and Teens Must Watch Trust_ the Movie
Ask any parent of a teenage girl what their worst nightmare is, and it’s likely you’ll come up with something similar to the script for the new movie ‘Trust’. Directed by David Schwimmer (formerly “Ross” from Friends), ‘Trust’ touches on the very serious topic of responsible use of social networks by children and how ‘disconnected’ [...]
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