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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

Polymarket's VPN crackdown signals the end of anonymous crypto trading as platforms treat privacy tools as compliance violations.
The government has just released a draft of their new privacy code aimed at helping protect kids' online data. They are seeking feedback from young Aussies across the country about the draft code and...
Every now and then, I write a story about how little privacy we have, thanks to the computers on our desks and the phones in our pockets. I warn that Internet companies large and small vacuum up the...
AI Could Derail Everything from Banking to Online Privacy: Are You at Risk?  Kiplinger
US nears $400 million settlement with TikTok on child-privacy violations, ABC News reports  Reuters
Privacy Badger Review 2026: A Free Privacy Tool That Blocks Trackers  All About Cookies
Blockchain Safety for Kids: Wallets, NFTs, Privacy  Blockchain Council
Is Your Bank Giving Consumers the Control Over Online Privacy that They Crave?  The Financial Brand
Online privacy: Can Massachusetts lead the way?  The Boston Globe
Apple brings online trackers to life in new global privacy campaign for Safari  marketech apac

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...