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A little social media news roundup

May 9, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

A flurry of social media news stories hit the airwaves this past week from Google, Facebook and Snapchat. Here are the ones most of interest to parents and educators: Snapchat: The Federal Trade Commission has apparently been wanting Snapchat to be much clearer about just how ephemeral its disappearing messages really are. The Commission filed a complaint and reached a settlement with Snapchat … [Read more...] about A little social media news roundup

Filed Under: apps, mobile, Social Media, social networking Tagged With: Apps for Education, classroom, Facebook, FTC, Google, Snapchat

FTC on mobile privacy: Now offering ‘guidance-plus’

February 15, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

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 an $800,000 penalty in response to the FTC's charges … [Read more...] about FTC on mobile privacy: Now offering ‘guidance-plus’

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Privacy, Social Media Tagged With: apps, COPPA, FTC, mobile platform, Path, Privacy

The new, revised COPPA

December 20, 2012 By Anne 2 Comments

The US Federal Trade Commission's revisions to the COPPA Rule announced today (12/19/12), are aimed at syncing up a rule mandated by a 1998 law with today's technology and with "the way children use the Internet, mobile devices and social networking," the FTC says in its press release. For example, the personal information that services cannot collect from children under 13 without parental … [Read more...] about The new, revised COPPA

Filed Under: geolocation, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Privacy, Social Media Tagged With: children's online privacy, consumer privacy, COPPA, FTC, New Media, privacy law, regulation

FTC still not satisfied with kid app privacy

December 10, 2012 By Anne 1 Comment

Only 20% of the 400 children’s apps the FTC analyzed "provided disclosures about their data collection practices," the New York Times reported today – and the apps that did linked to long, dense privacy policies that few users could comprehend. The Federal Trade Commission's announcement does not surprise; it's an update of the Commission's report last February (see this). But it says "little or … [Read more...] about FTC still not satisfied with kid app privacy

Filed Under: apps, geolocation, Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, mobile, Parenting, Privacy, Social Media Tagged With: children's privacy, consumer privacy, COPPA, FTC, mobile apps, mobile privacy

Today’s Net, kids & COPPA: Our comment to the FTC

September 25, 2012 By Anne 3 Comments

A US law about children's online services can really only regulate US-based children's online services. It might influence foreign regulators but it has no jurisdiction over sites and services based outside the US and can't stop US users from leaving compliant services and going to noncompliant ones outside the US (or in it, for that matter). So, by the global nature of the Internet, there's no … [Read more...] about Today’s Net, kids & COPPA: Our comment to the FTC

Filed Under: Law & Policy, Literacy & Citizenship, Privacy Tagged With: Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, children's privacy, consumer privacy, COPPA, FTC, Internet safety, proposed revisions, Social Media

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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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