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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

While some states have made data privacy gains, the US has so far been unable to implement protections at a federal level. A new bipartisan proposal called APRA could break the impasse.
U.S. lawmakers have unveiled a proposal that would give Americans a right to online privacy. Caroline Woods brings the latest business headlines from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as ...
Law firm Zimmerman Reed and 3,144 customers claimed that the company's website tracking tools violated consumer privacy ...
Incoming guidance by an expert steering body for European Union data protection law could have major implications for Meta's surveillance advertising business model: Large platforms such as Facebook...
Innovation, Data, and Commerce Subcommittee hearing: "Legislative Solutions to Protect Kids Online and Ensure ...  Energy and Commerce Committee
Online Age Verification Laws Could Do More Harm Than Good  Scientific American
New online data privacy legislation examined | SC Media  SC Media
TECH ADVICE: Settings to use to increase privacy online  Dayton Daily News
What is Maryland's Online Data Privacy Protection Act?  Security Boulevard
Maryland Online Data Privacy Act is broader, stricter, and more easily triggered than many state privacy laws  JD Supra

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...