by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News I still remember the impact of Google, back around 1998, which fundamentally changed the way we search for information. Even though I still use it multiple times a day, that quarter-century-old search engine...
By Trisha Prabhu “Is my smart speaker spying on me?” Hi, everyone, and welcome back to another week of Ask Trish! I hope you’re all well, enjoying March, and hopefully, for those of you who, like me, are in the Northern Hemisphere, some Spring weather. For...
Take it Down video from Nat’l Center for Missing & Exploited Children by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Non-Consensual sharing of intimate images (NCII) can be devastating no matter what the victim’s age. But any sharing of nude or...
Thousands of US students, families, community organizations and businesses from Maine to Hawaii came together on Feb. 7 for Safer Internet Day, the global event now celebrated in more than 100 counties. ConnectSafely is the official US coordinator of the international...
The internet opens the world up for our kids….but sometimes that can mean parts of the world we don’t want them to experience. Proactively setting boundaries and expectations for healthy online behaviors within families is important, but having these conversations is...
by Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News What are your plans for this coming Tuesday? That’s a rhetorical question, but whatever they are, I have one more thing to add. Feb. 7 is Safer Internet Day, when people all over the world will pause to think...
