NetFamilyNews.orgOne thing we all need to teach our kids now is that the privacy spectrum we really need to be aware of isn’t so much private-to-public as private-to-convenient – or, from kids’ perspective, private-to-social (or just to-spontaneous-&-fun). The more convenience we want (e.g., not bothering with password-protecting our phones or giving services all kinds of [...]
The overall message from the Federal Trade Commission to mobile app developers has moved from guidance to what I’d call guidance+. The guidance appears to be growing teeth. The commission, which enforces COPPA (the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), reached a settlement with Path, a social network site and mobile app that agreed to pay [...]
Did you know that we parents are pretty darn engaged with the young social media users at our houses? To our credit, I feel, most of us are folding social media into our parenting, the Pew Internet researchers report. For example – although high school student Jake tells his friend that he’s “probably the only [...]
Baby pictures, family photos, travel pix, party photos, whatever – there can be far-reaching unintended consequences of posting them online, whether you’re blogging, social networking, or photo- or video-sharing by phone or computer. Take mom and dad bloggers, for example. They post a lot of photos of their families, and their numbers are significant. Johnson [...]
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