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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.

The Institute for Internet Safety: Catching Mistakes Before Mistakes Catch You!

Online Privacy Daily News Feed

A coalition of more than two dozen digital and democratic rights groups, NGOs and not-for-profits, including noyb and Wikimedia Europe, have written to the European Union's regulatory body for data...
CCIA Files Amicus Brief In Online Privacy Case - CCIA  Computer and Communications Industry Association
Virginia lawmakers spotlight children's online privacy, safety concerns  The Virginian-Pilot
Blurred Lines: Online Behavior, Privacy, and the Expulsion of Aunty Akanke  BNN Breaking
How the death of third-party cookies could grow Google's advertising empire  WBUR News
Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson shows you how to securely use your Wi-Fi hotspot by using a virtual private network or VPN.
the Norwegian DPA warned the issue is a “huge fork in the road” for privacy rights in Europe. “Is data protection a fundamental right for everyone, or is it a luxury reserved for the wealthy? The ...
Children’s online data could have an extra layer of protection under bills that unanimously advanced from both chambers of the statehouse earlier this month. Meanwhile, Virginia received an ...
Internet users - almost all of us - are growing used to seeing requests for consent to gather our information:“Do you accept cookies from this websi ...
Groups opposing the Kids Online Safety Act have now dropped their opposition after additional changes were made to the bipartisan legislation championed by U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

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...