Category Archives: Internet Safety News
Suicide Lifeline offered by new Facebook Tool
Facebook is now offering a new tool to report a possible suicidal post. If you read a post that appears to be suicidal in nature you can use the report feature next to the Facebook post. Once reported to Facebook, staff will review it and send the post’s author an email. This email will [...]
Klout Makes Changes to Improve Child Privacy
This article is a follow up to the October 28, 2011, Kids Email blog post entitled, “Can Klout take your child’s privacy away.” Since that article was published there have been some major changes at Klout.com regarding Privacy and we here at KidsEmail want to make sure you are up to date on this issue. [...]
Can Klout take your child’s privacy away?
Recently, there has been a lot of online buzz around Klout taking the private Facebook page of a 13 year old child and creating a public Klout profile for that child. As read in the post by Danny Brown, Tonia Ries‘s son did not connect to Klout in anyway. His facebook page is set to [...]
Onguard Online
The website www.onguardonline.gov is a collaboration between the federal government and the technology industry. The purpose is to each you how to safely surf the Internet. The site has some tips for parents who want to monitor their children. They include: * Check out sites your kids visit, and see what kind of information the [...]
Department of Defense Ceases Software Sales
A software designed for children of military families is being scruitnized by the Department of Defense. Read more about it here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10408809-245.html?tag=mncol
Internet Bullying Makes the Cover of People
People Magazine ditched it’s coverage of gossip this week to talk about a real problem–Internet bullying. The story focuses on a Massachusetts teen who killed herself after she was bullied online. The story has been featured in many other publications. This should be a wake-up call to parents to monitor their children’s online activities. You [...]
The Hot Topic–Internet Bullying
It’s been on the cover of People this week and was featured on the Today Show. Parents are growing more and more concerned about Internet bullying. We are concerned about it too. That’s why were are here–to protect children from all types of dangers online. Feel free to ask us a question about Internet bullying. [...]
Concerns from Overseas–Internet Mobbing
Over the weekend someone left a poll on our Facebook page about “Internet Mobbing.” I was not familiar with that term and I had to look it up. Internet Mobbing is what we often call “cyberbullying.” Kids get together and pick on other kids online. While a lot of this happens on social media sites [...]
What’s The Buzz Around Google?
As if parents did not have enough to worry with, Google announced a new form of social media in February–Buzz. Immediatly internet safety experts expressed concerns about Buzz including one feature that allowed GPS to disclose a person’s location. Google took action this week and has launched some safety videos aimed at teens about internet [...]
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