By Anne Collier NetFamilyNews.org Four percent of US online youths have been asked to send sexually explicit photos of themselves over the Net, and about 1.5% have done so, [...]

by Anne Collier NetFamilyNews.org Friday, July 20, 2007 It was great to see the Associated Press’s “Net threats result of kids’ online behavior.” It [...]

by Larry Magid A famous cartoon from the New Yorker shows a dog sitting in front of a computer telling another dog, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” But [...]

by Larry Magid Most adults I know use their cell phones primarily to make calls. But ask any teenager and you’ll soon find out that that’s only one of many things [...]

by Larry Magid Although it’s always a good idea to take security companies’ dire warnings with a bit of skepticism, it’s clear to me we must take PC and Internet [...]

by Larry Magid The calendar has great news for kids and mixed news for parents. Summer is almost here, which means kids will be home from school. For parents this can bring [...]

MySpace has removed online profiles from about 7,000 registered convicted sex offenders. A group of state Attorneys General have demanded that MySpace disclose information [...]

by Larry MagidIt might seem as if children and teens are unlikely victims of identity theft, but the Federal Trade Commission has estimated that about 400,000 children have [...]

by Anne Collier NetFamilyNews Someone claiming to be a Petaluma (Calif.) High School student “hacked into several students’ MySpace accounts at about 10 p.m. [...]

by Larry Magid Imagine a world where you can be tracked anywhere you go. A decade ago that would have seemed like a paranoid delusion, but thanks to GPS-enabled cell phones [...]