Online safety needs to go beyond "Don't talk to strangers"
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Blog: A new study shows that online safety advice needs to go beyond "don't talk to strangers" to address the specific risky behaviors that make youth ages 10-17 vulnerable to online victimization.
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The relatively new world of online applications is grappling with security issues. Is Web security where it should be? And where should it be going?
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Many people now find sense of community more important than privacy.
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InfoWorld - The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.
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Also: Privacy: The problem that won't go away. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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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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The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.
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Can you trust your chat buddies not to post your sexual conversations online or send your transcripts to the media? Are you sure? Commentary by Regina Lynn.
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The always provocative Brad Templeton, who hung out with a large cadre of geeks at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW, or IIW2007) last week, has some cautions about new identity systems, even if they are all &quot;user-centric&quot;. These cautions lie in a paradox: &quot;The easier it is to give somebody ID information, the more often it will be done. And the easier it is to give ID information, the more palatable it is to ask for, or demand it.&quot; The italics are his.  Here he hits on the problem of market power asymmetries (vendors strong, customers weak) that have been with us for the whole Industrial Age, and are with us still. I think we have a way to overcome those, and that Brad's Paradox may provide exactly the conceptual hurdle we need to see before we can make progress. \
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As growing numbers of Americans turn to the Internet for holiday shopping, experts warn that online dangers such as fraud and identity theft are increasing as well.
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By Anonymous  HOMELAND SECURITY  What would happen to Internet reliability in the U.S.
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The typical online sexual predator is  not someone posing as a teen to lure unsuspecting victims into  face-to-face meetings that result in violent rapes, U.S.  researchers said on Monday.
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By Tammy Krikorian, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 10--The Internet gives East Valley parents plenty to worry about. Teens go online to socialize with friends and strangers, post personal photographs and even pour out their deepest secrets.
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Letters: On the need for a code of behavior for the Internet.
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WASHINGTON - Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers.
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TechWeb - The popular social networking site is taking steps to protect its young users.
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By Melissa Vargas Sanchez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep. 24--Making sure your kids are staying safe in cyberspace just got a little less tedious.   Many parents and grandparents of teens are mystified when it comes to things like friends lists, comment sections and blogs.