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Where did my Twitter go? And other end-of-2022 notes

December 18, 2022 By Anne 9 Comments

What a year it has been. And what a week. Or two, almost. I’ll start with the latest, because it was a telling cap-off to 2022: On December 8, three of us – Eirliani Abdul Rahman, a survivor of and activist against child sexual abuse, Lesley Podesta representing the Young & Resilient Research Center at Western Sydney University and I – resigned from Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, a … [Read more...] about Where did my Twitter go? And other end-of-2022 notes

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Social Media, Youth Tagged With: CDT, Center for Democracy and Technology, Eirliani Abdul Rahman, Elon Musk, Jonathan Howard, Lesley Podesta, online safety, Trust and Safety Council, twitter

Apple & the child online safety challenge

August 26, 2021 By Anne 3 Comments

2nd important update Sept. 19: As if in direct response to the open letter from privacy activists around the world, the WeProtect Global Alliance published their own statement saying Apple must not pause its expanded protections, the Guardian reported. I stand by my thoughts in the update just below. We need privacy activists and protection activists in the same room answering the questions: Would … [Read more...] about Apple & the child online safety challenge

Filed Under: childrens rights, Law & Policy, Parenting, Risk & Safety, sexual exploitation Tagged With: Alex Hern, Apple, Ben Thompson, Casey Newton, CDA, CDT, Center for Democracy and Technology, Children's Code, Convention on the Rights of the Child, COPA, digital rights, eSafety Commissioner, Facebook, Gillian Hadfield, Google, John Carr, Julie Cordua, Microsoft, NCMEC, Project Protect, Tech Coalition, Technology Coalition, Thorn, UNCRC

Of student digital privacy & schools demanding passwords

January 28, 2015 By Anne 1 Comment

For Data Privacy Day (1/28), let's take a look at students' data privacy – as in the data on their cellphones and whether school administrators have the right to search the devices. The ACLU says they don't. It called out a school board in Tennessee for violating the constitutional rights of students by implementing a policy that allows school officials to search digital devices kids bring to … [Read more...] about Of student digital privacy & schools demanding passwords

Filed Under: Parenting, passwords, Privacy, School & Tech Tagged With: ACLU, CDT, Data Privacy Day, Illinois law, Justin Patchin, Nancy Willard, Parenting, parents, passwords, schools, students

Flawed early laws of our new media environment

December 2, 2013 By Anne 5 Comments

Before any more laws aimed at protecting young people's online privacy get passed, I wish lawmakers could spend more time with kids using social media – kids of both sexes and various ages, at least their own children or grandchildren – and less time reacting to constituents' concerns and news reports about kids in social media. Certainly not all they'd observe and discuss with kids would be … [Read more...] about Flawed early laws of our new media environment

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy Tagged With: Adam Thierer, Ben Sperry, CDT, child protection, consumer privacy, danah boyd, Do Not Track Kids, eraser button, Jef Ausloos, Jeffrey Rosen, John Hendel, Meg Leta Ambrose, online privacy, Sen. Edward Markey

OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?

June 7, 2010 By Anne 21 Comments

"Youth Safety on a Living Internet," the title of the just-released report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (OSTWG), is significant. It says a lot about the state of youth Internet safety because it says a lot about the state of the Internet now. This is not just technology or even "content" we're talking about, as we all know. It's behavior, or sociality, every bit as much as … [Read more...] about OSTWG report: Why a ‘living Internet’?

Filed Under: Internet safety task force, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Adam Thierer, CDT, Emma Llanso, Hemanshu Nigam, Justin Patchin, Larry Magid, living Internet, Marian Merritt, NTIA, OSTWG, Youth Safety on a Living Internet

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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