Why Facebook Should Ignore Ceop’s Demand for Panic Button
Facebook has come under fire in the UK from their Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center (Ceop) for being unwilling to insert a ‘Panic’ button on their service. The thinking by CEOP is that...
View ArticleWe Need An Online Bill of Rights
We all need to be more assertive in protecting our online privacy; the FCC can help The Internet’s openness is critical to continued innovation, economic expansion, and healthy evolution in the ways we...
View ArticleGangs use of the Internet and Cell Phones
There are more than 20,000 gangs, with collectively over 1 million members in the United States. Gangs are present in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territories, according to the...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate Bill 1361 Well Intentioned, but Misses the Mark
California Senate Bill 1361, that takes aim at tackling the potential risks that arise when minors expose their home address and/or phone numbers on social networking sites, is well intended but...
View ArticleThe Internet’s Red-light District Domain .XXX is Closer to Arriving, Will It...
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally bowed to pressure to reconsider creating a unique .xxx suffix for adult entertainment Web sites, in spite of objections from...
View ArticleTraveling This summer? Know What Cell Phone Laws Apply
Before crossing state or county lines on your summer road trip, take a moment to learn what the cell phone laws are for any area you plan on visiting. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway...
View ArticleHome Broadband 2010
I am continuing my practice of sharing recent internet safety research pieces: Excerpt Study by Pew Internet & American Life Project: After several years of double digit growth, broadband adoption...
View ArticleTake 3 Minutes to Protect children from Slavery and Sex Trafficking
An estimated 3,287 children are trafficked around the globe every single day according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF). To counter this horrific practice, anti-human trafficking...
View ArticleGovernment Prepares to Increase Internet Privacy Protections for Consumers
In response to the increasingly key role that personal information plays in the internet economy and the wholesale exploitation of that information by some internet segments, the Obama administration...
View ArticleNet Neutrality? Not In the European Union
At the ‘The Open Internet and Net Neutrality in Europe’ summit last week, Europe’s leading Internet policy maker cited healthy competition as the reason the EU will not introduce net neutrality...
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