In the News

Your Privacy and Safety

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

Another thought-provoking debate around neurotechnology deals with cognitive liberty. According to the Center for Cognitive Liberty & Ethics, founded in 1999, the term refers to “the right of...
Employees in both the private and public sectors in Canada have rights regarding the protection of their personal information, even when they use devices that belong to their employer, say legal ...
The FBI recently warned that innocent images are being used to create explicit content that is then circulated online to embarrass or blackmail.
Key data privacy and cybersecurity developments in 2023 and emerging trends for 2024, including information on federal and state regulatory guidance and enforcement, as well as cross-border data ...
-On the next screen, make sure “Future Posts” and “Stories” are set to “Friends.” Then hit the button for “Limit Past Posts” and select “Limit.” This will ensure no straggler posts from your past are...
State-passed online privacy laws are inadequate, advocate group warns  Chicago Sun-Times
Children’s Online Privacy: History, Debates, and Current Legislative Developments  The National Law Review
How to stay virtually invisible online and be anonymous  CyberGuy Report
2023 U.S. Advertising and Privacy Trends and 2024 Forecast: Focus on Kids and Teens  The National Law Review
Today’s Cache | LGBTQ+ Indians fight for safe space online; AI firms lose $190 billion in market cap after Google, Microsoft results; ChatGPT violates EU privacy laws  The Hindu

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...