Blog Entries tagged 'internet safety'

Final Page in Nigerian Internet Scam

joyce@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

I noticed this news item this morning: "Woman Gets Two Years for Aiding Nigerian Internet Check Scam (PC World)" When we think of problems online most of us think about the sensational headlines regarding kids in chat rooms and seucal predators.

I'm here ttoday to let you know that most of us, yes adults, have no idea how to keep ourselves safe on the Internet, wither. Your kids and teenagers need to have you be safe and know the basics along with them. Some adults, in onl [...]

Net Providers Finally Agree to Block Sites With Child Sex

joyce@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

A friend of mine sent me a nifty link to the latest from the New York Times on Internet safety.

It seems these very responsible companies, Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block access to Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide that disseminate child pornography.

I mixed with emotion. Joyous and stupefied. “Oh Boy!” is the joy part and, “Gee, It only took 30 years and the threat of a class action suit for these guys to act t [...]

Internet Safety For Kids

joyce@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Internet safety for kids is hot. Why? Kids have to be safer online today, right now, immediately.

I want to share a gem with you today that will help you keep you child safer from cyberbullying.

There’s a conference today in New York called the International Stop Cyberbullying Conference on Tuesday, June 3, at the Schimmel Theatre on Pace University's downtown campus. There are some 200,000 teenagers who have pledged to help stop cyberbullying led by Teenangels' 'M [...]

New Internet Safety Rules For MySpace

joyce@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Online safety gets a boost this month. MySpace, "the place for friends" is working hard to distance itself from being identified as a place for pedophiles and pornography. While we know dangers to children online lurk everywhere, the new legislation in the U.S. targets MySpace in particular.

We think it will help. Here’s what happened. On January 14 all 50 Attorneys General signed a document under which MySpace agrees to make several changes. The changes are primarily [...]

MySpace Predator Caught

joyce@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Hey! The MySpace Predator Has Been Caught!

Now we'll see just how the justice system works with this creep. In the meantime, the reporters in the news and papers are pretty top notch! Today the papers have it all over TV. Whose keeping track of the score?

Anyway, following up my post yesterday on the latest MySpace predator, Joel Marino, the reporter from the South Flordia Sun-Sentinel dropped me an email back!

He said the predator was arrested in South Carolina! [...]

Bosses' Power To Check Email

joyce@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Bosses' Power To Check Email!

I found this in the news today....you may have seen it. We've been through this in the US and now from Sydney, Australia.

There's a story in the The Sydney Morning Herald about how the Australian government is backing legal rights to businesses to spy on their employees. Companies will be able to intercept the emails and internet communications of their employees without their consent under the new proposed laws.

The idea is that t [...]

Schools Mandating Online Safety Education

joyce@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100

Schools Mandating Online Safety Education?

Parents are responsible for their kids safety. Once again, people who are delegating that right to the schools, instead of handling it themselves, are in the news.

In Virginia, the schools are teaching mandatory Internet safety for all students in all grades. Virginia is not the only state doing this, either. Texas and Illinois are also teaching online safety to students, although as of this school year, Virginia is the only state [...]

Online Safety

info@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Is there Internet Safety for anyone online today?

Ah! The wonderful World Wide Web! A whole new door of information and possibilities has opened in our lifetimes.
And, it is still in its infancy. It is expanding everyday. By the time our children are grown, some estimates
project the Internet will be ten times larger and more expansive than it is today.

Whether you allow your child online or not, the fact is, they will be there at one time or another, even if it [...]

Internet Safety

info@keepingkidssafetoday.com — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Child Interent safety. A great concept. Want to be shocked? I am and I'm a child safety expert. Here's what I learned today. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has a new report out today that says as many as one in twenty people stumble across child sexual abuse images while surfing the Internet. This is absolutely crazy and unacceptable.

Do you have any idea what this does for folks like you and I? Online eCommerce and just good people surfing [...]