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Looking Backward to See Forward – Child Online Safety in the New Year(0)
When it comes to technology and social media, many parents feel like they are constantly playing catch up in an attempt to stay on top of what their kids are up to online. So in an effort to keep up as we enter 2012, we wanted to share some interesting information from a recent blog [...]
Full Story»New Privacy Changes on Facebook
It looks like online privacy has received a shot in the arm from the top dog of social media. Earlier this week, Facebook announced they are making several changes that will make it clearer with whom you are sharing photos, status updates, locations and tags. In fact, it’s one of the biggest privacy overhauls in [...]
Protect Your Child’s Photos from Facebook’s Facial Recognition Feature
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 [...]
Facebook Ought to Allow Children Under 13
by Larry Magid Today’s guest blogger is Larry Magid, co-director of ConnectSafely.org and a member of the SafetyWeb Product Advisory Council. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent comment that children under 13 should be allowed on Facebook didn’t surprise me. When I asked him about this a year ago, he told me, “It’s something that we’ve [...]
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