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By JENNIFER VALENTINO-DEVRIES Visitors to almost every major website are tracked online, a Journal investigation has found. But there are ways to limit the snooping.
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The Birds and the Bees Beth Blecherman has a frank take on parenting in a digital age. “Internet safety is the new sex talk,” said the Silicon Valley-based founder of parenting blog TechMamas.com. In other words, trying to enforce a childhood without technology is like expecting a teenager not to have hormones. But unlike a sex talk, the technology talk isn’t a one-time laying down of the law, but a series of rules negotiated as kids become more mature.
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David Perry is Global Director of Education for Trend Micro , where he represents the company's Internet security awareness endeavors as a leading authority on computer virus prevention. For ongoing updates on the latest threats, check out the Trend Micro microsite . The social web is not just a model of our world, but an indelible and growing part of it. People correspond, they do business, and just like in the real world, they have addresses, and mailboxes.
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The Facebook news in the US today was its new expanded Safety Center . The news in Britain was that Facebook "STILL refuses to install [a] 'panic button'" on its pages, as the UK's Daily Mail put it . However, Facebook also announced today that its UK users will "now be able to report unwanted or suspicious contact directly to CEOP [the UK's Child Exploitation & Online Protection Center ] and other leading safety and child protection organizations via its own reporting system," as CNN reported , so CEOP has come very close to getting its wish. But this "panic button" concept is really problematic – and not just because of the word "panic," which suggests brains in crisis mode, with all rational thought switched off. Here's why it's problematic: A single reporting mechanism doesn't cut it .This week, Facebook introduced the “open graph,” a giant expansion of the “social graph” concept on which Facebook is built. The word “open” alone should be a tip-off that there are significant new privacy issues to weigh. In the open graph, Facebook sees us as connected not just to other people – our friends — on Facebook, but to myriad things all over the Web.
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I spend A LOT of time at my computer and most of that time I am online either working, exploring, connecting or researching. I watch TV online, play games, share photos and run a business almost exclusively online. I connect on my desktop, my laptop and my iPhone. I am one wired mom so I feel confident that I can help my kids safely explore the internet and learn about its pitfalls and risks. However, many moms are not like me and don't have a sense of where the boundaries should be.
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