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Everyday we all read and hear stories about people who have done serious damage to themselves, to their future, or to others online. It’s almost impossible to keep track of these daily horror stories.

This avalanche of negative press we see, are the result of people doing what people have always done, except now it’s being done in front of the entire digital world.

Here at the Institute for Internet Safety, we are working tirelessly to help you safeguard and enhance your online identity.

The Institute for Internet Safety: Catching Mistakes Before Mistakes Catch You!

Online Privacy Daily News Feed

Disable networking protocols like UPnP and WPS features, which can make it easier for attackers to connect. UPnP lets devices open ports on your router automatically, and WPS makes connecting new ...
Technology Technology   The Big Story House panel prepares to take up kids’ online safety bills The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning to consider a slate ...
Walberg and Lee Lead Effort to Protect Children’s Online Privacy  Congressman Tim Walberg | (.gov)
Press Release: Reps. Tim Walberg and Laurel Lee Introduce Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0)  Quiver Quantitative
House panel prepares to take up slate of bills for kids online safety  The Hill
US States Crack Down on VPNs and Online Privacy for Minors  Red Hot Cyber
VPN Usage Statistics: The Growing Demand for Online Privacy in 2025  ElectroIQ
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is planning to consider a slate of 19 bills related to kids’ online safety and privacy next week amid a new push to pass protections for ...
Under the pretense of protecting minors and preserving morals, lawmakers in the United States and the United Kingdom are putting the privacy of millions of citizens at risk. Age verification bills ...
Thomas Nolan of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP examines key trends in state-level regulatory enforcement of consumer privacy laws in 2025, including divergent state approaches, interstate...

Featured News Stories

At Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Me., admissions officers are still talking about the high school senior who attended a campus information session last year for prospective students. Throughout...
It's junior year and Ellie Likos is ready to start the college process. The first step: changing her name on Facebook. Since the explosion of social media just a few years ago, colleges across...
Facebook Will No Longer Protect Teens From Their Own Bad Judgment - Forbes
On Wednesday, Facebook announced a present for its teen users: the gift of greater publicity. Moving forward, Facebook’s many under-18 users will be able to kick their privacy to the curb just as...
Opinion Should parents be criminally liable for kids' cyberbullying - CNN.com
Two girls in Florida, 14 and 12, have been arrested and charged with aggravated stalking -- cyberbullying. They allegedly tormented a 12-year-old girl named Rebecca so relentlessly that last month...
The selfie syndrome Why teens use social media for validation and how parents can counteract it - TODAY.com
Young celebrities do it. So why are we surprised when a typical teen Instagram post goes something like this: Teen (girl or boy) posts a cool/pretty/pouty selfie. What follows is a watch to see how...
They share, like, everything. How they feel about a song, their maths homework, life (it sucks). Where they'll be next; who they're with now. Photos, of themselves and others, doing stuff they quite...