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Online Safety This Summer
Spring is here and before you know it summer will be upon us. For parents, that means keeping kids busy during their long break from school. Though summer activities abound, chances are that children will have a lot of opportunity to spend time online without adult supervision. Now’s the time to put a game plan [...]
SafetyWeb’s Spring Break Tips
Fun. Sun. Relaxation. Spring break is the time of year when many teens take trips. But these fun little vacations can mean extra worries for parents. Along with safety and travel concerns, parents should pay extra attention to their teen’s social networking profiles before, during and after that spring break vacation. Check out our five [...]
Parenting: How to Avoid Raising a Bully
Stories about tragic “bullycides” (suicides as a result of bullying) have been all over the media lately. As a result, everyone wants to know how we, as a society, can prevent bullying. There’s no denying the fact that without an instigator, bullying would cease to exist. Therefore, we want to examine how children become bullies [...]
Cyberbullying: 13-Year-Old Houston Boy Dies of ‘Bullycide’
Asher Brown, an 8th grade student at Hamilton Middle School in Houston, Texas, committed suicide last Thursday after enduring two years of relentless bullying at school. Brown’s mother and stepfather say their son was bullied about “his small size, his religion and because he did not wear designer clothes and shoes.” Moreover, students accused Brown [...]
Cyberbullying: Freshman Opens Fire at School in South Carolina
It happened again. Last week, a 14-year-old male freshman at Socastee High School near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina shot a campus police officer after rigging several pipe bomb explosives around school grounds. “We’ve got a young man who has been under the dark cloud of bullying for many years now,” said the boy’s attorney, Russell [...]
Cyberbullying: High School Hazing Takes To The Internet
Many of us have suffered through some form of hazing over the course of our lives, whether it was an older sibling who forced us to eat an inedible concoction, or a sorority/fraternity initiation process in college. So, it was no real surprise when students at a suburban Philadelphia high school started a Facebook group [...]
Internet Safety: Tips to Keep Kids Safe on Skype
September 1st marked the first day of school for a 10-year-old girl in Lake Forest, Illinois. That evening, she used Skype, a free video chat and instant messaging service, to talk to her friends about their first day and discuss homework assignments. Everything was going great until an unfamiliar screen name popped up and requested [...]
Cyberstalking: Spyware Allows Stalkers to Tap Into Cell Phones
You probably think that your cell phone calls are always private and secure, but you’re wrong. A quick Google search will lead you to hundreds of different types of stealth technology services available to anyone for spying purposes. These surveillance products are extremely easy to install and allow cyberstalkers to tap into any target mobile [...]
Cyberbullying: Phoebe Prince Trial Starts in March for One of Six Alleged Cyberbullies
A judge in Hampshire County Superior Court in Northampton, Massachusetts yesterday set a March trial date for eighteen-year-old Sean Muleyville, one of six defendants in the Phoebe Prince case. Fifteen-year-old Prince committed suicide on January 14th after allegedly suffering months of bullying at school and online. Charges against the alleged bullies range from criminal harassment, [...]
Privacy: Google Engineer Fired After Spying on Seattle Teens Online
A very disturbing story appeared on Gawker’s website about a 27-year old Google engineer named David Barksdale who was fired from Google’s Kirkland, Washington office after allegedly spying on four teenagers’ online accounts for months. Google has since corroborated the report. Barksdale, who describes himself as a hacker, had met the teens (all minors) at [...]
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