Internet Safety Blog
What To Tell Your Kids About Online Piracy
By Lynette Owens This past Wednesday, Wikipedia and many other online communities decided to blackout their websites for as long as 24 hours in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect IP Act (PIPA). These two pieces of U.S....
Your New Profile is Here: Time for Facebook Timeline
By Lynette T. Owens Last September, Facebook announced that it would change the way your profile would be laid out and how you could share and manage your information. It is not uncommon for sites (social networking, websites, or any site) to...
Helping Kids Take a Stand Against Bullying
By Lynette T. Owens October is Anti-bullying Awareness month in the U.S. and this year, the conversation has clearly shifted from the victims and bullies to the bystanders of bullying. While the media and the rest of us have been shocked,...
Does technology in your kids’ hands worry you?
Guest post by Rosemina Nazarali, Kiwi Commons Technology is all around us -- it’s where we work, how we communicate and even how we entertain ourselves with music and movies. Our favorite gadgets help to make our lives easier but, when it’s in the...
This School Year, Help Kids with the Safe & Responsible Use of Social Networks
Guest Post by Lynette Owens featured on KiwiCommons With the arrival of another school year, many students my also return to a renewed and heavier use of their social networks to keep up with everything from school activities to the social scene. ...
Online Community Promoting Child Pornography Taken Down
By Lynette T. Owens Today, was a sad day as one of the darkest and most malicious uses of the Internet was uncovered. In the U.S., 72 people were charged and 52 arrested in the U.S. and abroad, for participating in the online distribution of images...
Privacy Legislation Does Not Eliminate Need to Teach Kids About Online Privacy
By Lynette T. Owens Do a search on the term ‘privacy legislation’ and you will see numerous links to politicians and news stories from the last few weeks. Online privacy has suddenly become the stage for a huge battle between lawmakers,...
Who Will Win? Final Week in 2nd Annual “What’s Your Story?” Contest
By Lynette Owens Last month, we launched the 2nd annual “What’s Your Story?” competition, an international user-generated video contest that empowers youth to be leaders in educating others about being safe online. We are now in the final week for...
Criminals Exploiting Japan’s Tragedy: A Chance to Teach Digital Literacy
By Lynette T. Owens As we’ve all seen, read, and heard, the people of Japan are experiencing tragedy beyond what any of us could have imagined or may ever experience ourselves. Seeing the magnitude of another’s suffering stirs compassion in many...
