Tag Archive for ‘Photo Sharing Safety’
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 [...]
For Parents: Did You Know That Your Child Has A Digital Dossier?
Recently, we came across a very powerful, four and a half minute video about digital dossiers, produced by the Digital Natives group at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The 2008 video, created by Kanupriya Tewari, takes a unique look at our online personas and traces our digital footprints from pre-birth to [...]
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 [...]
Privacy: Smart Phone Pictures and Geotagging
A Geotag is location-based information stored in the metadata of digital photography. Metadata is data stored within a digital file; it is not visible to the naked eye. Photograph metadata can be quite extensive and may include photographer name, date, camera settings, as well as location data. With most modern digital cameras, geotagging is not [...]
Sexting: Online “Sextortion” of Teens Increasing
Federal Authorities have made it official: online cases of sexual extortion or sexual exploitation of teenagers are mounting. It starts with a teen who takes a nude photograph of him/herself. At first glance, it seems harmless. They send the photo to a boyfriend or girlfriend via cell phone. This act is otherwise known as sexting, [...]
Cyberbullying: Nevada Schools Enforce New Cyberbullying Law
According to the National Crime Prevention Council, about half of Nevada students have been victims of cyberbullying. As of July 1st, students caught trying to “harm, threaten or cause emotional distress to other students, teachers, or school employees” can be charged with misdemeanor offenses that may include jail time. The law, however, actually makes schools [...]
Cyber-Bullying: Police in Greenwich, CT Push for Parents to Act
Police officials in the upscale town of Greenwich, Connecticut have spoken to students and teachers about the dangers of cyber-bullying, but now they are expanding their outreach to include parents. Youth Detective Kent Reynolds says that the number of cyber-bullying cases in Greenwich has grown, even reaching elementary schools. Students are starting to blur the [...]
Privacy: 10 Countries Criticize Google’s Privacy Policies
Privacy and data-protection officials from ten countries including Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain and the United Kingdom have all signed a letter to Google which criticizes the company’s approach to online security and privacy. Citing Google’s social networking product (Buzz) and their mapping product that takes 360 degree photographs [...]
Online Reputation: How To Manage Your Online Reputation
Remember, your online reputation = what you do and say + what others say about you. Tip #1 Manage your connections on all social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. You may have locked your security settings, but what about your friends? If an outsider landed on their page, what would they find out [...]
Sexting: Four California Teens Cited for Sexting
Four 15-year-old boys in Yucaipa, California have been cited for sexually exploiting a minor after posting nude photographs of their friends on the Internet. The citations could carry felony charges along with a misdemeanor possession of harmful matter of someone under the age of 18. The San Bernandino County district attorney’s office has not yet [...]
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