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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 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...
Kroger, America’s beloved supermarket giant, is being sued for allegedly violating HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) by secretly tracking and revealing the private health ...
Their daughter is old enough (and probably clever enough) to create and post a feature-length film. However, she is not old enough or mature enough to understand concepts like risk, privacy, and ...
Italy's data protection authority has kicked-off a fact-finding investigation into the practice of gathering large amounts of personal data online for use in training artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Meta is accused of knowingly keeping the accounts of children under 13 open while harvesting their data without parental consent.
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...
Meta sued over violating Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule  The San Joaquin Valley Sun
Wisconsin State Assembly Fast Tracks Wisconsin Data Privacy Act  Foley & Lardner LLP
Save 86% on Cyber Monday VPN deals: A no-brainer for streaming ...  Business Insider
Our embrace of the end of privacy comes at a cost  Financial Times

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...