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Everyday we all read and hear stories about people who have done serious damage to themselves, to their future, or to others online. It’s almost impossible to keep track of these daily horror stories.

This avalanche of negative press we see, are the result of people doing what people have always done, except now it’s being done in front of the entire digital world.

Here at the Institute for Internet Safety, we are working tirelessly to help you safeguard and enhance your online identity.

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Online Privacy Daily News Feed

Surfshark VPN falls squarely into that elusive club that blends online safety with other practical benefits such as minimal server overcrowding, the ability to stream in 4K HD without buffering, a ...
Leaked draft report says stated goals still come up short Google's Privacy Sandbox, which aspires to provide privacy-preserving ad targeting and analytics, still isn't sufficiently private.…...
Concerned About Your Online Privacy in 2024? You Are Not the Only One.  Cyber Security News
Colorado lawmakers target AI, social media and online data privacy  Axios
What Others Are Saying: The American Privacy Rights Act  Senate Commerce Committee
Online Child Privacy: Experts Caution Parents On Risks Of Sharing Children's Photos  Zenger.News
Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin Says Privacy In Physical Space Is 'Rapidly Decreasing' In Era Of Facial Recogn  Benzinga
Online privacy proposal unveiled — what you should know  Longview News-Journal
House lawmakers pledged to take swift action on data privacy and children's online safety at a key legislative hearing Wednesday, but the session also spotlighted a slew of issues that could still ...
GPC is an on/off switch, but it should be a dimmer switch that reflects online privacy preferences across a continuum from restrictive to permissive.

Featured News Stories

At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout...
It's junior year and Ellie Likos is ready to start the college process. The first step: changing her name on Facebook. Since the explosion of social media just a few years ago, colleges across...
Facebook Will No Longer Protect Teens From Their Own Bad Judgment - Forbes
On Wednesday, Facebook announced a present for its teen users: the gift of greater publicity. Moving forward, Facebook’s many under-18 users will be able to kick their privacy to the curb just as...
Opinion Should parents be criminally liable for kids' cyberbullying - CNN.com
Two girls in Florida, 14 and 12, have been arrested and charged with aggravated stalking -- cyberbullying. They allegedly tormented a 12-year-old girl named Rebecca so relentlessly that last month...
The selfie syndrome Why teens use social media for validation and how parents can counteract it - TODAY.com
Young celebrities do it. So why are we surprised when a typical teen Instagram post goes something like this: Teen (girl or boy) posts a cool/pretty/pouty selfie. What follows is a watch to see how...
They share, like, everything. How they feel about a song, their maths homework, life (it sucks). Where they'll be next; who they're with now. Photos, of themselves and others, doing stuff they quite...