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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

Shop safer online with virtual cards  Komando
Avast sold privacy software, then sold users' web browsing data, FTC alleges  CBS News
Canada Supreme Court Rules Police Need A Search Warrant To Get Person's IP Address  Live Law - Indian Legal News
Best Free VPN for 2024: Affordable Risk-Free Privacy  CNET
Best privacy tools and anonymous browsers of 2024  TechRadar
NDPC Investigates Alleged Privacy Breach At NIMC - :::...The Tide News Online:::...  The Tide
After I briefly browsed a website, the company sent me an unsolicited email. Data-privacy experts say companies know more about you than you think.
The Federal Trade Commission's Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule would likely reduce the quality of content available to children and allows the FTC to make child-rearing decisions instead of...
Philip N. Yannella and Tim Dickens of Blank Rome LLP discuss New Jersey's Daniel's Law, which prohibits the posting or disclosure of address and telephone information of certain New Jersey public ...
At least 31,031 people affected last year Stalkerware has reached "pandemic proportions," according to Kaspersky, which documented a total of 31,031 people affected by the intrusive software in 2023...

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...