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Net oversight board to consider .xxx domains

March 10, 2010 // 3 Comments

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board at its meeting Friday will consider a proposal from ICM Registry for adult sites to use the .xxx [...]

Social networking belongs in school

February 26, 2010 // 1 Comment

Without social networking, 21st schools are out of date (Credit: CC Nationaal Archief/Flickr) A recent survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 73 [...]

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 [...]

Web 2.0 schools – something more profound is happening

July 11, 2009 // 3 Comments

by Nancy Willard This is my first post at SafeKids.com and it was generated by a question from a reporter: “I am currently working on a story about the explosion of [...]

Teen online safety mostly about behavior

June 16, 2009 // 72 Comments

by Larry Magid The Internet and the way young people use technology are constantly evolving, but the safety messages change very slowly, if at all. Like technology itself, [...]

Guidelines for Parents of Teens

February 20, 2007 // 0 Comments

Talk with your Teens About What They Can and Cannot Do Online Be reasonable and set reasonable expectations. Try to understand their needs, interests, and curiosity. Remember [...]

Teen Safety on Info Highway

February 20, 2007 // 0 Comments

Whatever your age, the Internet is a great place to hang out. It’s not only fun, but it lets you keep in touch with friends and family and provides an enormous amount of [...]

Guidelines for Parents of pre-teens

February 19, 2007 // 0 Comments

NOTE: This advice is for parents of young children. As children get older, especially as they enter their teens, they generally get more freedom. For example, it is now [...]

Child Safety on the Information Highway — 20th Anniversary Edition

February 19, 2007 // 0 Comments

All-new content: This guide was originally written in 1994 for the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and slightly updated a few times until [...]

More Efforts at Keeping Kids Safe Online

February 19, 2007 // 0 Comments

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is launching a new Web site to answer parents’ questions about Internet safety and computers. The free [...]

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