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New phone app: Color me (& us) careful!

March 25, 2011 By Anne 1 Comment

The new Color photo-sharing app for iPhone and Android smartphones, is free, potentially fun, and has no age restrictions. And it will probably have a lot of appeal for our highly social, digital photography-loving kids who love to share and tag. It also has staying power. Color "has all-star founders who have an impressive track record," reports ReadWriteWeb, and they raised $41 million to get … [Read more...] about New phone app: Color me (& us) careful!

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Bill Nguyen, Color, consumer privacy, geolocation, GPS, mobile app, mobile safety, photo-sharing, Social Media

Update: FB holds off on that last privacy change

January 18, 2011 By Anne 2 Comments

Facebook temporarily reversed its decision to make users' address and phone numbers available to apps with users' permission. "Over the weekend, we got some useful feedback that we could make people more clearly aware of when they are granting access to this data," Douglas Purdy, Facebook's director of developer relations wrote in the site blog. "We agree, and we are making changes to help ensure … [Read more...] about Update: FB holds off on that last privacy change

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy Tagged With: changes its mind, consumer privacy, Facebook, feedback, Privacy, suspends privacy change

Headsup, parents! New privacy change at FB

January 18, 2011 By Anne 2 Comments

Parents, the best advice for Facebook users at your house is, "Leave the contact info in your profile blank." That's the quick, easy end run around the new change, which allows apps to use your address and phone numbers if you give them permission to do so. That's the good news: It's opt-in – you choose to provide the apps with that info. The problem is, once FB users decide to install an app, … [Read more...] about Headsup, parents! New privacy change at FB

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship Tagged With: apps, consumer privacy, data security, Facebook, iPhone, media literacy, online safety, Privacy, third-party applications

From do-not-call to do-not-track? FTC says yes

December 2, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

In its just-released preliminary framework for protecting Internet users' privacy, the Federal Trade Commission "suggests implementation of a 'Do Not Track' mechanism" reminiscent of the very successful Do Not Call list it launched in 2003. The do-not-track mechanism, "likely a persistent setting on consumers’ [Web] browsers" would allow consumers to choose "whether to allow the collection of data … [Read more...] about From do-not-call to do-not-track? FTC says yes

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy Tagged With: consumer privacy, Do Not Call, Do Not Track, FTC, online privacy, privacy practices, profiling, tracking

Talking privacy at household & international levels

November 1, 2010 By Anne 3 Comments

We – all of us (well, maybe all of us above the age of around 28) – are in a very uncomfortable place where personal privacy's concerned. It seems all of our children are social Web users and we all have growing digital footprints ourselves, whether we're on Facebook or not, and we're pretty uneasy about the implications of all this intentional and inadvertent sharing for us as well as our kids. … [Read more...] about Talking privacy at household & international levels

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy, Risk & Safety, Social Media, social norms Tagged With: Christopher Wolf, Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, consumer privacy, Jules Polonetsky, Michael Geist, online privacy, privacy norms, social networking, social norms

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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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