Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Internet Safety

For those interested a major report was recently released that examines children's safety on-line. The end result being three fold:
1. We should focus on children who willingly enter into relationships with adults and explain the risks with adult relationships rather then focusing on the tech.
2. Technology is most effective at screening out the adults but it is very difficult to screen-in (for lack of a better phrase) the children. In other words filtering out is much harder than filtering in.
3. Peer-to-peer sexual issues and bullying are the largest concern.


Good media summary:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10142096-238.html?tag=mncol

Or if you have time:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/pubrelease/isttf/


_J
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