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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

Instagram is changing the default privacy settings for many US teenagers, part of an effort to keep them safer and give parents more control over how ...
The internet has evolved drastically, now characterized by over-commercialization, dominance of tech giants, and emerging artificial intelligence technologies. Users experience less informative ...
Heritage Action for America, the advocacy arm of conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, urged the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Friday to advance legislation meant to boost kids’ ...
The class plaintiffs claim that Headway surreptitiously shared their mental health information with Google when it embedded Google Analytics on its site.
Today, the Australian government committed to developing the country’s first data protection law for children.
Reuters.com is your online source for the latest news stories and current events, ensuring our readers up to date with any breaking news developments ...
Why Hero Browser Is the Ultimate Tool for Privacy-Conscious Users  NewsBTC
Consumer privacy is steadily becoming more prioritised by big companies. Click here to find out about the biggest online threats that lie ahead.
It’s an inevitability that using the internet carries some risks — and one of those risks is the increasingly terrifying amount of personal information that a website or advertising network has on ...
Today, nearly all our online activities involve companies gathering personal information about us. This data is collected and frequently utilised for various purposes, such as when you use social ...

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...