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November 2009

Avoiding social networking scams

November 22, 2009 // 164 Comments

by Larry Magid This post originally appeared in the San Jose Mercury News More and more people are using social networking sites, including, sadly, criminals seeking to take [...]

Google adds lock to SafeSearch

November 11, 2009 // 1,319 Comments

Google has long allowed parents a SafeSearch filtering setting that keeps kids from using the search engine to find inappropriate sites like those with explicit sexual images [...]

Treating kids on the web in a new way

November 11, 2009 // 5 Comments

I spent part of last week in Washington, D.C., attending a gathering that turned out to be a watershed moment in the 16-year history of online safety education. The third [...]