Photo Sharing Safety 
Protect Your Child’s Photos from Facebook’s Facial Recognition Feature(1)
Facebook just launched an automatic facial recognition feature that makes photo tagging easier, but could also put your child’s photos at risk of being automatically tagged, exposing their privacy. Facebook’s tagging feature allows your child’s friends to tag pictures that your child appears in, and identifies your child automatically by suggesting to their friends that [...]
Full Story»Facebook’s new facial recognition feature: What parents need to know
Tag, you’re it! Facebook’s photo sharing is getting a facelift. If you’ve ever uploaded a photo to your Facebook page, you’re surely familiar with “tagging” someone – notifying a friend that she’s in a pic you posted. And our kids do it all the time – using digital cameras, camcorders and cell phones — to [...]
Social Networks: Should Teachers “Friend” Students Online?
It’s all over the news lately. Several school districts around the country are deciding whether to instill social networking policies, as teachers and students connect online on sites like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. After three teachers in New York City were fired for allegedly flirting with students online, the New York Post nicknamed the recent [...]
Social Networks: Facebook Pics of Underage Drinkers Sent to Police
Everybody is talking in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Melrose about almost 70 underage high school teens that were caught on camera playing a popular drinking game called beer pong. The photographs were first posted on Facebook and show the students, some of which are sports team captains, at a summer house party with alcohol [...]
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