Internet Safety Tips
Protecting Your Privacy on Google Services
In the same way that the brand “Kleenex” is generically used to refer to any tissue for blowing ...
Recently, Google altered their privacy rules so that all your actions on any of their 60+ sites and subsidiaries...
The Societal Costs of Digital Piracy
What’s the big deal about “piracy?” So I downloaded one song from a file-sharing site instead of....
Piracy is a crime. Unfortunately, lots of youth and adults think sharing software, games, music, ebooks, pictures...
Is Your Tween or Teen Asking Internet Strangers for Validation?
Self-esteem is shaped by what we perceive our parents, siblings, friends, teachers, and other adults....
It’s natural for teens to seek validation, but it is vital that parents help teens and tweens avoid seeking validation...
Your Rights and Services If You Have Become a Victim of Identity Theft
Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the U.S., with over nine million victims each year.
If your ID theft case is more complicated, it’s vital that you learn how to take additional steps, and this...
What should my kids understand before posting or viewing videos on YouTube?
YouTube is a video hosting service owned by Google. There are other video hosting services, but this...
YouTube also contains videos that you may find highly inappropriate, with violence...
What do I do if my child has an inappropriate video on YouTube?
Despite their best intentions, sometimes kids and teens place videos on YouTube that aren’t in their...
If your only concern about a video is that it shares too much personal information to be publicly viewable...
Who owns Internet content?
The internet makes it is really easy to copy and paste a wide variety of content and use it in...
When you write a blog, article, poem, story or essay, no one else has the right to claim that they wrote it.
Why are my search results different than others’ search results?
Search engines have tools called crawlers that collect and index all the public information online...
For example, by collecting your location and the date when you search for “pizza” they can deliver results...
1 in 3 Robberies Last Year Included Cell Phone Theft
In 2011, roughly one out of three robberies nationwide involved theft of a cell phone.
Unsurprisingly, the thefts grew most rapidly in urban areas where cell phone density is highest.
Are Your Children Ready for the Internet’s Advertising Onslaught?
If you and your kids think you are constantly seeing and hearing more ads online you’re right.
But unless your kids can identify a phish from a fish, recognize the trustworthiness of advertisers’ claims...