By Emily Mulder For two days on November 17th and 18th, the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) will hold its ninth Annual Conference, Risks. Harms. Rewards in Washington, DC. We will seek to review the past year in online safety, discuss and debate current issues...
By Larry Magid It’s time to take a deep breath when it comes to teen sexting. It is an issue but it’s not an epidemic and, in most cases, when it happens it doesn’t result in anything terrible. I’m sure you’ve read the stories about the...
By Maureen Kochan Actress Kate Winslet, who stars in the new film based on the life of Apple founder Steve Jobs, told the Sunday Times in the U.K. that she doesn’t allow her kids to use social media at home. “It has a huge impact on young women’s self-esteem, because...
It’s “the law” in most countries but kids still have very few digital rights There has been a great deal of talk about online child protection but precious little about children’s rights.There are laws on the books of the United States and...
Larry Magid’s 1 minute CBS News Tech Talk segment on Trend Micro report By Larry Magid As it does every year, security firm Trend Micro has released its annual threat report, titled “Security Predictions for 2016 and Beyond.” And, to me, the most...
By Kerry Gallagher Just over a decade ago a common understanding of the word “literacy” included only the abilities to read and write text. Today, literacy encompasses the ability to interpret and create media that includes text, but also art, audio, video, animation,...
