Category: Online Safety

Every family sets ground rules for bedtime, chores, and manners. Online behavior deserves the same kind of planning. Too often, though, the conversation about internet safety never happens until something goes wrong. There is a simpler habit that prevents that scramble: the family meeting. Sitting down together to talk about how your home uses devices …

Many teens share their live location online without thinking about who can see it. Features like Snapchat’s Snap Map, Instagram location sharing, and iPhone’s live location make it easy to let friends and family know where you are. That can be useful at a busy festival or when a parent just wants to know a …

There’s no single app or setting that can fully protect a child online. What actually moves the needle, experts agree, is a simple set of family rules — small, consistent boundaries around where and how devices get used. That’s the heart of a practical new guide from the National Cybersecurity Alliance on family tech rules. …

Screen time arguments. Secret app downloads. Late-night gaming sessions. If any of this sounds familiar, you are not alone — and there is a practical tool that can help. A family technology agreement is a simple written contract between parents and kids that sets clear expectations around device use, online behavior, privacy, and screen time. …

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 …