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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

Burden of Truth Season 1 is about a lawyer Joanna Chang takes on a case involving internet privacy and faces personal and legal challenges in a small town. Alongside ally Billy Crawford, she uncovers...
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is essentially a secure tunnel that encrypts your internet connection, providing a layer of privacy and security. Here's a closer look at what VPNs do: VPNs encrypt ...
Audiences are at the heart of everything we do at the BBC. We actively engage and ask our audience to contribute to our News output in a variety of ways, including giving you the chance to send in ...
As a data protection consultancy, we get quite excited around Data Privacy Day which this year is on January 28. It’s a chance for us to underscore the importance of safeguarding personal information.
On December 20, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Proposed Rule) seeking to update the Children’s Online Privacy ...
Royal Oman Police recently arrested a resident for violating the Information Technology Law after publishing a video clip.The ROP statement on ...
On January 16, 2024, New Jersey became the thirteenth state to enact a comprehensive data privacy law, named the New Jersey Data Privacy Act (the “NJDPA”). The ...
Tools to Protect Your Privacy Online | EFFector 36.1  EFF
Children's online privacy: Tell the FTC  Drgnews
How to protect your digital devices and privacy online  TODAY

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...