As technology becomes more embedded in children’s lives every year, parents face the challenge of balancing safety with independence. The National Cybersecurity Alliance recently published a guide to family tech rules built around expert input from child safety professionals, cybersecurity researchers, and parents themselves. Here are six practical rules that can make a real difference. …
The internet your child navigates today is not the same one you grew up with. AI-generated deepfakes, social engineering scams, and platforms designed to maximize engagement have changed the landscape entirely. But the good news is this: you don’t need to become a cybersecurity expert to keep your family safe. What matters most is having …
Parents today are asked to navigate a digital landscape that changes faster than any guidebook can keep up with. AI-generated content, social media algorithms designed for engagement, gaming platforms with open chat, and the constant threat of online exploitation — it is a lot. The problem is not that parents do not care. It is …
Instagram is rolling out a new safety feature that notifies parents when their teenagers repeatedly search for suicide or self-harm content. The feature, arriving next week in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, represents a significant shift in how Meta approaches child safety online. Here is how it works. Teens enrolled in Instagram’s “Teen Accounts” …
Conversational AI chatbots are exploding in popularity among teens — and so are the risks. A new nationally representative study published in the Journal of Adolescence found that 60% of US teens ages 13 to 17 have used a conversational AI chatbot at least once. More alarming: of those teen users, nearly half (46.8%) reported …
Premier Launches Expanded AMBER Alert to Keep Kids SafeBritish Columbia’s AMBER Alert system is getting a major boost. Premier Christy Clark and Justice Minister and Attorney General Shirley Bond announced a new government-wide initiative that will see 30,000 civil servants receive AMBER Alerts on their work computers and mobile devices on a 24-hour basis.By BC …
WSIS Forum 2013 – Child online Protection in MENA and South East Asia (ITDMDC: Information Technology and Digital Media Development Center)In line with the ITU’s "Child Online Protection" agenda and WSIS AC 5, substantial effort has been made to enhance cyber safety, in particular for youth and children in the Middle East and North Africa …
Swiped: How to Protect Yourself in a World Full of Scammers, Phishers, and Identity Thieves Product Description Increasingly, identity theft is a fact of life. We might once have hoped to protect ourselves from hackers with airtight passwords and aggressive spam folders, and those are good ideas as far as they go. But the truth …
Can we bring justice to family courts? That’s a highly political question, and I think the answer has more to do with the nature of the human beings behind the system and the misconceptions of those using the system to seek safety. We hear of battered women falling through the cracks of the system as …
Fire Chief Ken Presents: Parents vs Predators (Internet Safety for Families) Product DescriptionIn this frank and open discussion of the dark world of internet predators, safety expert Fire Chief Ken Prillaman takes you on a very personal journey of the dangers faced by kids on-line. Eye-opening, alarming, and empowering, this breakthrough safety training will prepare …