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Online Safety Technology Working Group
June 9, 2010 - WiredSafety was honored to be part of the OSTWG, a federal online safety task force composed of representatives from nearly every facet of the child online safety world. On June 4th they published their report.
Download the entire report >>
WiredSafety's Comments >>
Tenth Annual WiredKids Summit
 The Tenth Annual WiredKids Summit
will took place on May 27, 2010. The summit is given each year,
entirely by Tweenangels and Teenangels. They give awards to their
favorite sites and to people they recognize have made the Internet
safer. They present research they conduct and teach adults what they
need to know.
Kids on the stage, adults in the audience; industry,
policymakers, law enforcement... (More at Teenangels.org...)
Read more about the 2009 WiredKids
Summit >>
The
Teenangels report from the 9th Annual WiredKids Summit  >>
Protect Your Privacy at Facebook!
April 28, 2010 – Last week, Facebook announced that it would begin allowing third party website access to user information. This means that your friends and even friends of your friends visit these web sites, they may be presented with information that you have not and world not share via Facebook. It is extremely important that you understand how these applications will work and how to change your Facebook privacy settings in order to share only the information you want to share. WiredSafety has created this tutorial that explains these applications and how you can adjust your privacy settings at Facebook.
ISTTF - The Internet Safety Technical
Task Force (ISTTF) Report Alert
 At noon January 14, 2009 The
Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF) released its report. Thirty of the top experts
and industry members, including Parry Aftab for WiredSafety,
joined together at the request of the Attorneys General and
MySpace to review risks and solutions to keep children safer on social
networks. The process took about nine months.
The main thrust of the ISTTF review was to test and analyze technology
solutions, especially those designed to keep underage children off of
social networks and to protect them from Internet sexual predators and
sexual exploitation. WiredSafety was proud to have been selected to
serve a member of The Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTTF). Parry Aftab, our Teenangels and other
advisors and volunteers attended the ISTTF meetings on behalf of WiredSafety.
While many Attorneys General have been active in this area and
in this process, two Attorneys General have spearheaded the effort –
Attorney General Blumenthal from Connecticut and Attorney General
Cooper from North Carolina. The Attorneys General of each state and the
District of Columbia received their copies of the report in
mid-December.
It is hoped that this is the beginning, not the end, of the
process. The NTIA is selecting a working group of
its own, as will (we suspect) the FTC.
Even the White House is getting involved and is considering appointing
an Internet security guru. For the first time, the US states, cities
and federal government are focusing their efforts on pulling together
industry, advocates and policymakers to address cyberrisks and
solutions.
The report contains one page comments from each member, in
addition to a thorough review of existing research. WiredSafety’s
comment can be found here.
Technology experts selected by the ISTTF also reviewed the technology options submitted
to the ISTTF and prepared a report evaluating
the technology they reviewed.
To read more of our thoughts on both the process, the final
report and our suggested next steps, visit our ISTTF page.
Follow
this link to read the full ISTTF report >>
Follow
this link for information about the ISTTF and WiredSafety's Role
>>
Social Networking Safety
 With the popularity of Social
Networking on the increase, WiredSafety provides schools, parents,
regulators and the media with a wealth of information on keeping Kids
and Teens Safe on MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Xanga and other Social
Networking Sites. The following resources are all available for viewing
online and/or download as PDF files:
Follow
this link to find out more about safe Social Networking >>
Privacy and Security
 Recently,
there has been a significant increase in many types of activity online
which were once only conducted exclusively offline, such as: banking,
dating and shopping. Make sure that you are aware of the dangers, that
you know how to protect yourself (and your personal information) and
also, what to do if something does go wrong online.
Follow this link to
visit WiredSafety's Privacy and Security pages >>
Tweenangels 
As the world's leading dedicated toy and baby products retailer, Toys"R"Us, Inc. strives to make available the necessary information and products to help parents and caregivers keep their kids safe. Toys“R”Us works with WiredSafety.org to educate families about online safety by providing tips for kids and advice for parents on its dedicated Safety website, Toysarus.com/Safety. The Toys“R”Us Children’s Fund also has provided funding to help WiredSafety.org complete its Tweenangels training program, so more kids can become advocates for online safety. |
Visit Parry's 
January 22, 2009:
