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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!

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Privacy worries and online scams are making it harder for Census Bureau surveyors to understand U.S. business  Fortune
Banning TikTok won't fix our online privacy problem  Star Tribune
Data privacy, sponsorship, online accessibility: 5 interesting stats to ...  Marketing Week
Alexander Fedorowicz: Privacy legislation would break online ...  Florida Politics
Prince Harry appears at a U.K. high court for a privacy lawsuit ...  NPR
Twitter says parts of its source code were leaked online  NPR
Prince Harry Makes Surprise Trip To London To Attend Privacy ...  Access Hollywood
Most marketers believe balancing data collection with privacy will get harder. Six in 10 (60%) marketing leaders believe it will be more difficult to balance first-party data coll ...
A hearing about the privacy threats posed by TikTok's Chinese ownership obscured the reality that Americans have few online privacy rights to begin with.
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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...