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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

Consumer Reports’ Permission Slip is a new free app that provides information on how more than 100 companies use your personal information and lets you request that they stop selling it or that they...
The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS) is currently viewed as one of the world’s leading centers for research and education in areas of information and...
The state has changed a COVID-19 dashboard that served as a data pipeline throughout the pandemic. Ventura County is following suit. Here's why.
A survey revealed how little Americans aged 25+ know about their digital privacy and how they feel about data protection.
Facebook chiefs were urged to think again about encrypting messaging as it risks making it harder to catch “paedophiles” preying on children online. Schools Standards Minister Damian Hinds issued the...
And as new state privacy laws continue to come online, businesses should ensure that their privacy policies reflect the current legal landscape. Annual Notice Update. The CCPA requires businesses to...
No program that vets ed tech for student privacy would be complete without considering federal laws, training, monitoring and more.
The complaint, lodged by privacy activist Max Schrems, alleges that X unlawfully used people's political and religious beliefs to target them with ads.
Adobe facing class-action suit over personal data privacy in Netherlands  Telecompaper EN
A privacy law in the works at the State House could give Mainers the option to stop their personal information from being tracked, collected or sold.

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...