Facebook has made some changes to what it calls its “data use policy,” which is essentially the same as its privacy policy. The company has also added a [...]

Facebook, like all sites with user content, has had to battle against people using the service to post and distribution illegal child pornography.  In my CNET News post, I [...]

by Larry Magid When Consumer Reports writes about home appliances, it tells you their strengths and weaknesses but I’ve never seen any dire warnings about how you can lose [...]

Embracing Digital Youth sponsoring a free cyberbullying webinar on April 26th at 7:00 PM ET A free two hour webinar, scheduled for April 26th at 7:00 P.M. Eastern Time, will [...]

This sweet song,  recorded by 14 year old twins Mary & Brianna Ferraro, was written when they were 11. Take a listen (and look) and scroll below the video to read the [...]

by David Finkelhor, Heather A. Turner & Sherry Hamby This commentary argues that it is time to make bullying less of the central concept in efforts to combat peer [...]

by Larry Magid Now defunct iPhone app showed images of nearby women As far as I can tell, the app “Girls Around Me” wasn’t violating any laws. But it was [...]

This article first appeared in the San Jose Mercury News by Larry Magid The Federal Trade Commission’s final report on digital privacy contains some very welcome [...]

From Google’s Good to Know [...]

by Larry Magid Facebook is more than a social network. It’s also a platform that allows independent developers to create applications, or “apps” that [...]