Teen exposure to online pornography common
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About four in every 10 U.S. youngsters  age 10 to 17 report they've seen pornography while on the  Internet, two-thirds of them saying it was uninvited, according  to a study published on Monday.
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Cellphone cameras and text messages, social networking Web sites, e-mail and instant messaging, all give teenagers a wider range of ways to play tricks on one another.
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By David Gambacorta, Philadelphia Daily News  Jun. 13--Research has taught the Child Predator Unit this much: One in five girls and one in five boys will be sexually propositioned online during their early adolescence.
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Most U.S. parents said their  children had encountered "issues" like bad language, sex or  advertising online over the past year, but they are not  stopping their kids' Internet use, according to a new study.
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In a Jan. 14 story about an agreement by MySpace to protect youngsters from online sexual predators, The Associated Press erroneously quoted Parry Aftab as saying that 20 percent of teens have met someone online whom they had never met in person. Aftab, executive director of Wiredsafety.org, a children's Internet safety group, estimates that 20 percent of teens have made contact with someone online and followed up with a face-to-face meeting.
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A majority of teens see  movies within the first two weeks after their release, and  despite the surging popularity of the Internet among 13- to  17-year-olds, most find out about the latest films from TV ads  and in-theater trailers, according to a new study from consumer  research firm OTX and teen social networking site eCrush.
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A pornographic incident involving a high school student has recently touched off a nation-wide debate in India on the ethical use of camera phones and on combating cyber crimes.
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TechWeb - Seven out of 10 teenagers and young adults are surfing the web with broadband connections, which have become a driving force behind the increasing amount of time they spend online.
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PRAGUE -- When Austrian authorities announced in February that they had uncovered an online child pornography ring, pedophiles around the world suddenly became potential targets of criminal investigations -- but not the ring's 63 customers in the Czech Republic, where downloading and possessing such...
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According to the National Center for Missing &amp; Exploited Children, one of every seven children between 10 and 17 has been solicited for sex on the Internet. It's the kind of statistic that can frighten parents into pulling the plug.
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NEARLY half of all young web surfers reveal all about their lives on social networking websites such as MySpace, researchers say.  They found 44 per cent of 16-34-year-olds share their innermost thoughts online.
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It was a private act of two hormone-charged teenagers that lasted two minutes and 37 seconds on digital video. But offered for sale on the Internet, the fuzzy images of the 17-year-old girl having oral sex
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A national study released Thursday showed that teenagers whose friends were sexually active were more likely to smoke, drink or use illegal drugs.
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By John McBride, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 24--For some parents, the risks of the Web may appear to outweigh the benefits. Does e-mail and help with homework trump pornography and predators?   One way to gain some peace of mind is a product called K9 Web Protection.
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Fears that teenagers using the social networking website MySpace are exposing themselves to sexual predators by disclosing too many personal details are probably overblown, researchers say.
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WASHINGTON -- Many more white children use the Internet than do Hispanic and black students, a reminder that going online is hardly a way of life for everyone, a federal study has found.
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