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Controlling where Facebook Places puts you
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8/20/2010 2:16:43 AM SafeKids.com
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By Larry Magid This article originally appeared on CNET News.com Facebook’s privacy settings enable users to customize who sees where you are. (Credit: Facebook) In designing its new Places geolocation service, Facebook seems to have learned from its past privacy blunders. The new service has multiple layers of privacy control, but as with other aspects of Facebook privacy, [...]
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Other side of Facebook Privacy Issue
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7/31/2010 7:13:16 PM SafeKids.com
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by Larry Magid Facebook’s announcement last week that it passed the 500 million mark reminded me that the concept of a “face book” is not unique to Facebook.com. Long before computers and the Internet, the term was used to describe printed books that included pictures and brief descriptions of students. I’ve read that founder Mark [...]
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So-Called Facebook “Panic Button” Is About Engagement, Not Panic
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7/13/2010 10:19:47 AM SafeKids.com
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After months of negotiations, Facebook has reached an agreement with the U.K’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre that will result in a new safety application aimed at British 13-18 year olds. CEOP, the UK government’s police agency responsible for protecting children against sexual exploitation, had been pressuring Facebook to install what many in the [...]
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Study has good news about kids online behavior
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6/26/2010 5:20:15 PM SafeKids.com
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by Larry Magid (this article first appeared on News.com) The headline of the press pitch I received a few days ago read “McAfee to release shocking findings of teen’s online behavior,” but the actual data from the study, “Secret Life of Teens,” are far from shocking. McAfee’s study (PDF) is actually a reassuring portrait of how [...]
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Report to Congress: Media literacy, not fear, can protect youth online
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6/4/2010 8:20:16 PM SafeKids.com
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Final report of the Online Safety Technology Working Group Youth Safety on a Living Internet (PDF), the final report by the Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG), found that the best way to assure youth safety on the Internet “points to the growing importance of online citizenship and media-literacy education, in addition to what has [...]
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