Internet Safety Blog
What We’re Reading This Week: Google Becomes Cookie Monster, Twitter Makes Kids Smarter, Mobiles Make Them Dumber
By Lynette Owens Week of September 16, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What We’re Reading This Week: Teachers as Cyber-Shields, The Future of Tech in Schools, Privacy-Respecting Apps
By Lynette Owens Week of September 9, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What We’re Reading This Week: Spying on Students, Babies on Twitter, The Privacy We Want & Give Up
By Lynette Owens Week of September 2, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
Help Us Take on the Issue of Kids, Ads, and Online Privacy at SxSW
By Lynette Owens A recent Pew Center study found that 81% of parents are concerned about how much information advertisers collect about their kids. Additionally, many parents are still uninformed about what happens to their child’s information...
What We’re Reading This Week: Internet Fasting Camps, Impact of Social Media on the Brain, What COPPA Changes Mean to Kids Privacy
By Lynette Owens Week of August 26, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What We’re Reading This Week: Teen Angst Over Privacy, Censorship and Hannah Smith, the Internet circa 1997
By Lynette Owens Week of August 12, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What We’re Reading This Week: Over-parenting Online, UK Social Media Boycott, Tips for Kids’ First Facebook
By Lynette Owens Week of August 5, 2013 To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we’ve found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
What’ We’re Reading This Week: Twitter’s Dilemma, David Cameron’s Kids on Facebook, Tips for Online Games
By Lynette Owens Week of July 29, 2013 To help you keep up with what's going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we've found most useful over the past week. What have you been...
Why the UK Online Content Ban Will Hurt not Help Our Kids
By Lynette Owens On Monday, July 22, British Prime Minister David Cameron gave a speech strongly urging ISPs, search engines, and mobile operators to block consumers from accessing online content, namely pornography. The motivation for the speech...
