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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

Best VPN of 2024: Services Tested and Reviewed  Security.org
Texas AG Ken Paxton launches new team to prosecute online privacy and security cases  The Texas Tribune
Maryland Legislature passes two online privacy bills  thesentinel.com
Industry Representatives and Regulators Grapple with Privacy, Child Online Safety Legislation at IAPP Global Privacy Summit  Tech Policy Press
Google's journey here has been, well, interesting. Safari and Firefox already block third-party cookies, along with a number of other ways websites try to track you online. Even other Chromium ...
Former Google engineer Tim Libert is releasing a search engine, WebXray, that aims to find illicit online data collection and tracking—with the goal of becoming “the Henry Ford of tech lawsuits.” ...
The Kids Online Safety Act would force tech companies to enable the highest possible privacy settings for minor users and would force platforms to use a stronger hand in regulating harmful material...
The two bills – the Kid's Online Safety Act (also known as KOSA) and the Children and Teens Online Privacy Protection Act (dubbed COPPA 2.0) – would mark the first significant legislation to protect...
For example, publishing a photo of a child will have different privacy risks, if it's published on a school's Facebook page, on a class learning platform or in a hard-copy school newsletter. Parents...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to announce in a speech that he will bring the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0) to...

Featured News Stories

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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...