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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

‘Anonymity Online Is Going to Die’: What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S. - Rolling Stone
‘Anonymity Online Is Going to Die’: What Age-Verification Laws Could Look Like in the U.S.  Rolling Stone
Online age checks are proliferating, but so are concerns they curtail internet freedom - AP News
Online age checks are proliferating, but so are concerns they curtail internet freedom  AP News
Boots Online Doctor expands reach with CTV in privacy-first wellness campaign - InternetRetailing
Boots Online Doctor expands reach with CTV in privacy-first wellness campaign  InternetRetailing
Social media ban: concerns as age checks fuel ‘conspiracy’ privacy fears - EducationHQ
Social media ban: concerns as age checks fuel ‘conspiracy’ privacy fears  EducationHQ
This Chromium-based privacy browser is great for protecting yourself online, and no, I'm not talking about Brave - xda-developers.com
This Chromium-based privacy browser is great for protecting yourself online, and no, I'm not talking about Brave  xda-developers.com
Chrome Users: This One Simple Tool Can Massively Boost Your Online Privacy
Google Chrome doesn’t offer complete privacy on its own—but when you use it with a VPN, your online security and anonymity get a major boost. Here are three major reasons why.
Trying to protect your child's privacy online? You'll need more than an emoji
Though experts broadly agreed blurring or obscuring a child's face should not be the only privacy measure parents considered when posting pictures online, Joanne Orlando, a digital wellbeing ...
Disney to pay $10 million for alleged child privacy violations
Disney has agreed to pay a $10 million settlement after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accused it of unlawfully allowing children's personal data to be collected. It seems the issue came...
Disney to Pay $10 Million for Violating Children's Privacy Rules with Certain YouTube Videos
Disney will pay $10 million to end a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the entertainment giant mislabeled videos on YouTube. As noted by Axios, the impact of Disney’s actions was...
What the Tech? Protect your online privacy with Google's free tool for hiding personal data
The good news is that Google has created a free tool to help you hide some of this information from search results. It does not remove your data from the internet entirely, but it makes it more ...

Featured News Stories

They Loved Your G.P.A. Then They Saw Your Tweets. - NYTimes.com
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...
Colleges looking at applicants' social media in admissions process
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...
Are teenagers really careless about online privacy Technology The Guardian
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...