Archive for January, 2011
Why You Should Update Your Child’s Facebook Security Settings Now
In honor of National Data Privacy Day tomorrow, Facebook announced this week it has launched new security measures to help safeguard your personal information on Facebook by allowing you [or your child] to log in and access all of Facebook using a secure connection, also known as “HTTPS”. What this means in plain English is [...]
Update: Another Change to Facebook Privacy Settings
As reported this week by CNET’s Lance Whitney, Facebook has again changed its privacy settings and reversed its decision to enable Facebook applications to suddenly access user addresses and cell numbers. In an article entitled ‘Facebook backtracks on apps grabbing address, cell number’, CNET details how Facebook changed its mind, perhaps temporarily, on allowing application [...]
Your family’s contact info on Facebook — Don’t ‘allow’
By Staci Perkins The next time you see the “allow” or “don’t allow” permission box after clicking on a Facebook app, pay very close attention to what you may be allowing. Application developers want your contact info – and they can now get it right from your profile page if you aren’t careful where you [...]
AMBER Alerts Available on Facebook
The national notifications issued when a child is abducted – AMBER Alerts – are going social. Today was AMBER Alerts Awareness Day, and in honor of AMBER Alerts, Facebook decided to launch the alerts system this week. Facebook users in the U.S. will now see the alerts because of the social networking site’s partnership with [...]
Privacy: 8 New Year’s Resolutions for Protecting Your Privacy Online
Happy New Year! With 2011 off to a great start, we thought now would be the perfect time for a refresher course about basic online privacy protection. In fact, this would serve as a wonderful opportunity for parents to sit down with their children to review how we can all stay safe online. To jumpstart [...]
Cyberbullying: California Takes Aim at Cyberbullies with New Law
Remember the days of prank calling? …like that time you and your friends pretended to be somebody you didn’t like in school so you could order 10 pizza pies delivered to their home? Or what about that time your dad impersonated a police officer when he called the girl who was bullying you to scare [...]
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