A UK privacy-rights organization is recommending to cell-phone makers that they make flash standard on all phones, the BBC reports. Privacy International says that camera phones make it a lot easier to take illicit photos without permission - a threat to people's privacy, especially children's. So if a flash accompanies every picture taken with a phone, subject will always know their photo's been … [Read more...] about Good idea for picture phones
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Baby bloggers…
...are no longer the brainchildren of only tech-literate parents. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, they're the new "mommy (and daddy) must-have," read not just by doting grandparents, but also by complete strangers. Of course, baby pix and milestones and parenting advice are still the mainstay of baby blogs. "The sites, with names such a 'Daddyzine' and "Bloggingmommies' "are this … [Read more...] about Baby bloggers…
Misc. resources for online familes
I get lots of email from makers and publishers of resources for parents. I don't endorse products and software because, as a little nonprofit, Net Family News doesn't have the resources to test them properly, but I do occasional roundups in case there's something you've been looking for among these (I do check out every Web site and only pass along the ones I feel are worth a look). Click here for … [Read more...] about Misc. resources for online familes
Online safety: Filters or laws?
Now that the Internet's "the gateway to both the richest and the raunchiest of human expression," is legislation or filtering a better way to protect children? This Scripps Howard article does a good job of framing the debate that has tied US courts up in knots for years. The bottom line for parents is that - though filtering is undeniably flawed - it's better than nothing if you need a little … [Read more...] about Online safety: Filters or laws?
Kid Net-safety tools reviewed
Reviews of online-kid-protection software and services are few and far between these days, so hats off to PC Magazine for keeping online families up to date on what's available. Echoing what all online-kids advocates are saying, its intro says porn isn't parents' only worry. Besides the relatively rare sexual-predator danger (see "Rethinking 'stranger danger'," 6/11), there's the infinitely more … [Read more...] about Kid Net-safety tools reviewed