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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!

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The internet in China is already tightly controlled and censored. The "Great Firewall" blocks the country's more than 1 billion users from accessing international sites and services without a ...
What the Tech? Protect your online privacy with Google's free tool for hiding personal data  Tioga Publishing
Blockchain technology, originally designed to power cryptocurrencies, offers a fundamentally different model. Its decentralized ledger allows for anonymous and verifiable transactions. Every ...
Malicious sites are already taking advantage of the security blindspot to gain a foothold among sites using ECH.
Freddie New, head of policy at Bitcoin Policy UK, a UK-based Bitcoin think tank and advocacy group, speaks to what’s in our immediate power when it comes to preserving our privacy online, including...
The internet in China is already tightly controlled and censored. The "Great Firewall" blocks the country's more than 1 billion users from accessing international sites and services without a ...
Data brokers face new pressure for hiding opt-out pages from Google  CalMatters
Parent alleges Escambia Schools is sharing students' private data via use of AI  Pensacola News Journal
Protect Your Personal Information From Hackers and Scammers  Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
Ninth Circuit weighs applying VHS-era privacy law to online videos  MLex

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...
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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...