Internet Safety News
Click on a topic below to see what articles we have on that subject then click on the title of the article to view it.
- Awards & Youth and Children
- Chatrooms
- Crime and Punishment
- E-Dating
- Education/Internet in Schools
- File Sharing
- Fraud
- Gaming
- Harassment
- Hate/Racism
- Instant Messaging
- Law
- Mentoring
- Parents & Guardians
- Piracy
- Pornography/Illegal Images
- Predators
- Privacy
- Real-World Safety
- Safety Initiatives
- Spam
- Studies/Surveys
- Teens
- Trends
- Warnings
Awards & Youth and Children
- Children's 'Nobel Prizes' Announced
- Award-Winning Sites by/for Children Announced
- Online Youth Activists
Chatrooms
- Teen Murdered by Man She Met in Chatroom
- Stalkers of Cyberstalkers
- 12-Year-Old Girl Back Home After Ordeal
- Teen Consultants to Law Enforcement
- A Caring Chatroom
- Online Child Molesters
Crime and Punishment
- The Internet's Underbelly
- Teen Murdered by Man She Met in Chatroom
- Illegal-Drugs Site Closed
- Teens' Net-Based Crimes
- Tragedy in Connecticut
- Elusive "Mousetrapper" Shut Down
E-Dating
- Search for Online Romance Leads to Fake Kidnapping
- E-Dating Services
- Downside to Online Dating (And Photographs on the Web!)
Education/Internet in Schools
- Teen View of the Internet in School
- Student Technology Support
- Safe School Web Sites
- Students and "Net Thinking"
- Anti-Piracy "Curriculum" for U.S. Students
- Instant Messaging Teaches English Skills?
- Concerns Parents Should Have If Their Child Accesses the Internet at School
- U.S. High Schools Teaching Online
- U.S. Universities Resigned to File-Swapping
- Distance Learning's Lessons
- E-Rate's First Two Years
- Virtual vs. Traditional School
- Children's Online Library
- Free Test-Preparation Materials
- Schools, Parents, Students Against Filtering
- Free e-mail: An Update
- E-Greeting Cards Linking to Porn
- E-Mail Chain Letters: Crackdown
- Don't Click on the Link
- Good News in Fight Against Spam
- You Too Could Be An Unsuspecting Spammer
File Sharing
- European Parliament on Filtering
- Calibrated Filtering: New Study Helpful to Parents
- Filtering's Other Flaw
- Library Filtering on the Rise
- Should Families Use Online-Safety Software?
- RIAA Now After Ordinary File-Swappers
- Young Internet Users' Perspective
- New Filtering Tool From the Net-Ratings Folks
- U.S. Filtering Law on Trial
- The Library-Filtering Question
- Schools, Parents, Students Against Filtering
Fraud
Gaming
Harassment
- Girl Scout Survey: Sexual Harassment of Teens on Net
- Teen's IM Privileges Taken Away
- Tips to Help When Your Child is Bullied Online
Hate/Racism
Instant Messaging
Law
- Major Decision on "Virtual Child Porn"
- "Legal Child Porn?"
- COPPA's Birthday: Reality Check on Kids' Privacy and Safety Online
- Tobacco Sales Online
- Candy Bars and Cookies: COPPA Violations
- Safe School Web Sites
- U.S. Supreme Court Rules on Library Filtering
- RIAA Now After Ordinary File-Swappers
- U.S. Filtering Law on Trial
- COPA Struck Down Again
- The Library-Filtering Question
- CIPA Overturned
- Good News in Fight Against Spam
Mentoring
Parents & Guardians
- When Do I Start Teaching My Child About Personal Safety?
- Checking Sex-Offender Registries
- Blog Beware
- “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work” Day 2006
- Snoopier Parents
- Should Families Use Online-Safety Software?
- 12-Year-Old Girl Back Home After Ordeal
- Concerns Parents Should Have If Their Child Accesses the Internet at School
- 4 of 5 Kids Receive Inappropriate Spam
- Moms Online
- New Study: Moms and Dads Online
- "Growing with Media" - A New Resource for Parents
- Tips to Help When Your Child is Bullied Online
- Schools, Parents, Students Against Filtering
Piracy
- Young Online Pirates
- Anti-Piracy "Curriculum" for U.S. Students
- RIAA Now After Ordinary File-Swappers
- Virtual Shoplifting?
- Legal "Clip Art" on the Web
Pornography/Illegal Images
- Major Decision on "Virtual Child Porn"
- "Legal Child Porn?"
- FTC Sues Pornography Spam Operator
- E-Greeting Cards Linking to Porn
- Credit-Card Company's Anti-Child-Porn Stand
- Safe School Web Sites
- 4 of 5 Kids Receive Inappropriate Spam
- Net Child-Porn Ring Cracked
- Another Attempt by Congress to End Illegal Images of Children
- Online Kids' Exposure to Pornography: Separate Studies in Two Different Countries
- File-Sharing Pornography
- Elusive "Mousetrapper" Shut Down
- "Link Rot"
- Internet Pornography and Children: Extraordinary Complexity
- Downside to Online Dating (And Photographs on the Web!)
Predators
- Checking Sex-Offender Registries
- The Internet's Underbelly
- 12-Year-Old Girl Back Home After Ordeal
- Tragedy in Connecticut
- Online Child Molesters
Privacy
- FTC: Progress in Kids' Online Privacy
- COPPA's Birthday: Reality Check on Kids' Privacy and Safety Online
- Popcorn Site Violated Kids' Privacy
- Candy Bars and Cookies: COPPA Violations
- Borders in Cyberspace
- Amazon.com Accused of Violating Kids' Privacy
Real-World Safety
Safety Initiatives
- CyberTipline Milestone
- Friend to Online Kids
- Another Step for Dot-Kids
- New Partnership to Help Online Kids
- CyberTipline.com: Defense for Kids and their Families
- Stalkers of Cyberstalkers
- CyberTipline's Milestone
- Teen Consultants to Law Enforcement
- Quick Dot-Kids Action "Related"
- Bush Focuses on Internet Safety for Children
- CyberTipline: New Type of Help for Online Kids
- First Look at "Dot-Kids" Space
Spam
- FTC Sues Pornography Spam Operator
- Good News in Fight Against Spam
- You Too Could Be An Unsuspecting Spammer
Studies/Surveys
- Kids Choose Internet Over Television
- New Study on Kids' Internet Use
- Girl Scout Survey: Sexual Harassment of Teens on Net
- "Religion Surfers"
- High-Speed Connecting: Risks
- 4 of 5 Kids Receive Inappropriate Spam
- Young Internet Users' Perspective
- Surfers "Getting Serious"
- Australian Study on Filters' Effectiveness
- Online Kids' Exposure to Pornography: Separate Studies in Two Different Countries
- "Link Rot"
- Internet Pornography and Children: Extraordinary Complexity
- Tech-Fluent University Students
Teens
- Blog Beware
- "Generation IM"
- Teen View of the Internet in School
- Tobacco Sales Online
- Teen Murdered by Man She Met in Chatroom
- Playing at Life...Online
- Girl Scout Survey: Sexual Harassment of Teens on Net
- Teens' Net-Based Crimes
- Student Technology Support
- Online Youth Activists
- Teen Consultants to Law Enforcement
- Teen's Site About Freshmen Girls
- Search for Online Romance Leads to Fake Kidnapping
- Cell Phones, the Internet, and Teens: Another Heads-Up for Parents
- E-Dating Services
- Tragedy in Connecticut
- Free Test-Preparation Materials
- EZ Shortcut?
Trends
- Children's Surfing Preferences
- Warning: Pop-Up Downloads
- Computer Gaming Is Becoming More Popular
- The Internet's Underbelly
- Racist Web Games
- Stalkers of Cyberstalkers
- Kids and Technology: Trends in 2002
- Digital Divide Still Exists in U.S.
- Cell Phones, the Internet, and Teens: Another Heads-Up for Parents
- EZ Shortcut?
- "Growing with Media" - A New Resource for Parents
Warnings
- Checking Sex-Offender Registries
- Warning: Pop-Up Downloads
- Home "PC Invaders"
- The Internet's Underbelly
- Concerns About Pro-Anorexia Sites
- Hateful Video Games
- Don't Click on the Link
- Racist Web Games
- Stalkers of Cyberstalkers
- Kids and Technology: Trends in 2002
- RIAA Now After Ordinary File-Swappers
- 12-Year-Old Girl Back Home After Ordeal
- A Caring Chatroom
Copyright © 2001-2007 National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
All rights reserved.