Posted by Larry Magid | Dec 10, 2012
by Larry Magid Several years ago, my site SafeKids.com, developed a Family Contract for Online Safety and every few months I make sure it’s up-to-date. The idea of a contract, or series of pledges, is to get everyone in...
Read MorePosted by Larry Magid | Oct 15, 2012
Thanks to my ConnectSafely.org co-director Anne Collier for her thoughtful post about cell phone tracking that concludes “most parents don’t really need software to parent.” I of course agree. What she said about...
Read MorePosted by Larry Magid | Apr 9, 2012
by David Finkelhor, Heather A. Turner & Sherry Hamby This commentary argues that it is time to make bullying less of the central concept in efforts to combat peer victimization. Bullying has been a pivotal concept in the...
Read MorePosted by Larry Magid | Mar 6, 2012
This post is adapted and expanded from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 5, 2012 by Larry Magid There has been a lot of work over the past few years to combat online and offline bullying. Olweus Bullying...
Read MorePosted by Larry Magid | Feb 28, 2012
This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on February 27, 2012 by Larry Magid I might be overly optimistic, but I hope this will be remembered as the month digital privacy rights finally started to become real. Last...
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