As part of the Kids Have Your Say project, coordinated globally by ConnectSafely, Insight , our U.S. partner, My Digital Tat2 convened a meeting of high school students in East Palo Alto, CA on September 19th to talk about what they want the internet to look like....
by Larry Magid Several years ago, David Finkelhor, director of the University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center gave a talk and wrote a paper called The Internet, Youth Safety and the Problem of “Juvenoia.” His argument, based on...
by Larry Magid This post appeared in the Mercury News Microsoft’s revelation that it has discovered and disabled websites controlled by a group with ties to the Russian government is not only a warning to political operatives from both parties, but to everyone who...
1. What’s protected by copyright and what isn’t? The U.S. Copyright Office says that copyright “protects original works of authorship including literary, dramatic, musical, and artistic works, such as poetry, novels, movies, songs, computer software, and...
by Larry Magid A new smartphone app, Goya-Move is “designed to get children off their mobile devices and moving again.” The company says that its app allows parents to: Set a daily or hourly step goal for their children. Block specific apps that will be...
by Larry Magid It’s been obvious for awhile that we’re starting to experience a tech backlash, with an increasing number of people expressing skepticism over whether our devices and social media are doing us harm. Some of this skepticism can be healthy when, for...
