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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

For most people, the answer is "not very far." The cost of privacy is not only the knowledge it takes to navigate safely and invisibly online, but often also the inconvenience that comes with ...
Pixalate Discovers 286 US-Based Mobile Apps in the Google &  GlobeNewswire
Do Wi-Fi Routers Track Your Browsing? I Read 30,000 Words of Privacy Policies to Find Out  CNET
Should you ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ all cookies? An expert explains  The Independent
M&S Hong Kong not responding to Privacy Commissioner’s Office after online customer data breach  Hong Kong Free Press
UK Government Halts Plans to Break End-to-End Encryption, but Privacy Risks Remain  Private Internet Access
Protect your online privacy with the Privacy Please browser extension. Block trackers, ads, enjoy secure browsing with this open-source tool.
Proton Mail offers privacy via end-to-end encryption, but in my personal experience, falls short of Gmail in some key areas.
The internet is a nosy place. In this series, Lifehacker explains how to protect one of the most important aspects of modern life: your privacy. Everyone wants privacy, but how far are you willing ...
Your W-Fi router is responsible for conveying nearly 100% of your internet traffic. That's a lot of data -- enough to make privacy a concern when picking one out.

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...