Two milestone documents out of the UK - one a 200-page report requested by Prime Minister Gordon Brown and called "The Byron Review" after its lead author, clinical psychologist and TV personality, Dr. Tanya Brown, and the other a set of guidelines for social-networking-service best practices issued by the Home Office itself - have just been released. With the exception of references to British … [Read more...] about UK: 2 valuable views on Net safety, Part 1
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No screentime for a week
This mom and news correspondent says it right up front: Working in her favor in banning TV and computer use at her house for a week was the fact that her two sons, 8 and 10, are pretty outdoorsy and they aren’t yet teenagers (aka social networkers). On Day 2, she writes in the UK’s The Times, it’s like having toddlers again (no time to one’s self, etc.). Day 4 is the high point – when all the … [Read more...] about No screentime for a week
Videogames’ ‘report card’
American kids need to be put on a media diet, said David Walsh as he unveiled his watchdog group's 11th-annual "Video Game Report Card" in Washington today, the Associated Press reports. The Minneapolis-based National Institute on Media and the Family "urged parents to take a stronger role in safeguarding their children from games that glamorize sex and violence. Game industry news site Gamasutra … [Read more...] about Videogames’ ‘report card’
E-gambling ban questioned
Banning online gambling in the US is like the ban on alcohol during the Prohibition, said Britain's culture secretary, Tessa Jowell, in the run-up to an international conference on Internet gambling. According to the Associated Press, she said the ban "would make unregulated offshore sites the 'modern equivalent of speakeasies','' those secretive backroom bars of the 1920s. Congress tacked the … [Read more...] about E-gambling ban questioned
The life of an ID thief
Ever wonder how people's identities get stolen? A New York Times profile of 22-year-old convicted identity thief Shiva Brent Sharma explains a lot – especially about how it happens through phishing sites (more than lost credit cards and riffled-through garbage cans). The people most vulnerable to phishing-related ID theft are new to the Web. They're victimized by "social engineering" more than … [Read more...] about The life of an ID thief