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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.

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Online Privacy Daily News Feed

A Markup examination of a typical college shows how students are subject to a vast and growing array of watchful tech, from homework trackers to test-taking software, even license plate readers ...
An NGO dedicated to protecting online privacy rights filed a complaint Tuesday against Meta's paid no-ad subscription service. Meta's service prevents individual data from reaching advertising ...
U.S. President Joe Biden’s much-anticipated executive order (EO) on artificial intelligence set a new tone for the U.S. — markedly different from the Trump administration’s “AI with American values...
The article How Companies’ Online ‘Dark Patterns’ Cost You, and How to Resist originally appeared on NerdWallet.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Facebook watches your teens online as they prep for college. How Meta uses the data triggered civil rights concerns over censorship proposed or passed...
A lawsuit against Meta (formerly Facebook) alleges that the company violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA) and state-based consumer protection statutes by collecting personal...
All of the VPNs we've selected today are ones we've extensively tested for work, privacy, security, and international streaming, and they're all top-notch. Some are packed with a few extra features...
HomeAgain, a Merck & Co. division, is facing a lawsuit that tests a new legal theory, stretching a California law against “pen register” software amid a flood of interest in online tracking tool...
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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...