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We frequently report on new filtering tools and services, as well as safe e-playgrounds for kids. For your convenience, here are our reports* pulled together in one place. We have to say, though, that online kids' very best safeguard - besides their own developing critical judgment - is sound family Net-use policy and discussion. For guidelines and sample rules and family Net-use contracts, check out SafeKids.com.
- Mac security: What's really needed? - 9/16/05
- File-sharing realities for families '05 (updated from the P2P feature leading the 5/28/04 issue)
- IM anthropology: 11-to-15-year-olds' virtual community (plus parental-control software for IM) - 4/29/05
- A dad on kids' blogs - how father & daughter worked through the issues - 3/5/05
- Help from the new ChatDanger.com: Beyond chat! - 1/28/05
- Finding filtering, monitoring, and other online-safety tools - 1/14/05 and 1/21/05
- New free tool (plus information) for dealing with phishing (online scams) - 12/17/04
- The IM life of middle-schoolers: Home tech options - 10/15/04
- Cybersocializing, cyberbullying - 9/10/04
- Computer shut-down software & an image filter - 9/3/04
- WebSafeCrackerz: Neat new online-safety site for teens - 5/21/04
- Fresh online-safety options for parents: 6 products - 4/9/04
- Det. Bob Williams on basic Net safety at home...
Tip No. 1 - Parental supervision - 2/13/04 (includes Detective Williams's bio)
Tip No. 2 - The very public family PC - 2/20/04
Tip No. 3 - That may not be homework - 2/27/04
Tip No. 4 - Parents, control the master screen name - 3/5/04
Tip No. 5 - Parents, know your kids' screen names/passwords - 3/12/04
Tip No. 6 - Check out summer camps' Internet policies - 3/19/04
Tip No. 7 - Kids might meet Net 'friends' on school sports trips - 3/26/04
- New ICRAplus filter: Now making sense for parents - 12/12/03
- MediaFence file-sharing detection software for parents - 11/14/03
- Guardian Monitor for monitor children's online activities - 9/26/03
- Webguard the new PC and Internet 'time out' tool - 9/5/03
- Calibrated filtering: New study helpful to parents - 12/13/02
- New online-safety solutions (this is news!) - 11/1/02
- Dewie the turtle & home cybersecurity - 9/27/02
- KidFu.com launches!: Safe chat, boards, and other types of online community for kids - 4/26/02
- Australian study on 14 filters' effectiveness - 3/29/02
- New tool for teaching kids online safety - 3/22/02
- New (free) filtering product from the Net-ratings folk - 3/22/02
- Filtering's other flaw: Software companies' values set blocking criteria - 3/1/02
- A police officer's update on online safety - 2/2/02
- Safe and useful or fun Web sites for kids (or anyone) from one of the most reliable sources around - 1/25/02
- Disclosure vs. censorship: Balancing kids' safety & free speech in the US, filtering in Europe - 11/2/01
- Filling online-safety gaps at home - 10/19/01
- A 10-year-old pundit on Internet use - 10/12/01
- Part 2: Constructive school Net use in a nutshell - 10/05/01
- CIPA, online safety & what schools really need: Part 1 - 9/28/01
- Next-generation filtering & monitoring - 8/10/01
- Filtering in Languages Other than English - 6/8/01
- Software4Parents.com - helping parents choose online-safety tools - 5/4/01
- McAfee's new online-safety resource - 4/6/01
- New online-safety tool for instant-messaging - 3/23/01
- Latest trend: Safe e-playgrounds - 3/2/01
- All about online chat - 12/15/00
- Big Step Forward for International Web Ratings - 11/10/00
- The First Online-Safety Song for Kids - 11/3/00
- Keeping Kids Safe in Chat - 11/3/00
- Internet Activity Center - 7/21/00
- Safe Directories - 7/21/00
- Family Guardian - 7/21/00
- Filtering by ISP - 5/26/00
- New concept: iForAll's remote monitoring + communication - 4/28/00
- ChildWatch: Filtering + desktop management - 4/28/00
- Next step for online safety: The browser option - 4/7/00
- New monitoring tool - 3/10/00
- Hybrid filtering with artificial intelligence: Exotrope's BAIR Filtering System - 2/4/00
- SurfMonkey.com: New parental permission system and 3-D chat with avatars - 2/4/00
- HEYnetwork: Private family cyberspaces; Parent control over kids' experience - 2/4/00
- PBSKids.org's relaunch - 2/4/00
- Fresh online-safety information out on the Web - 1/21/00
- Hybrid filtering: ClickChoice's myFilter - 1/7/00
- Online safety: Our subscribers' (parents') views - 12/17/99
- Child Online Protection Act: An editorial - 11/12/99
- Online safety in French and Spanish, too - 10/2899
- Lessons learned: A video/wakeup call for parents and kids - 10/28/99
- Two upbeat kids' safety solutions - 10/22/99
- Safe chat for kids: A site and a young online-safety expert - 10/15/99
- 'We-commerce' (educational e-commerce for kids) - 10/8/99
- Safe e-playgrounds - 10/1/99
- Children's privacy players - 9/24/99
- Web ratings: An international challenge - 9/10/99
- Hybrid filtering: BrowseSafe's PlanetGood - 9/10/99
- How marketers are thinking about e-commerce and kids - 6/25/99
- Fresh online-safety options (overview from a kids' Web publishers conference) - 6/18/99
- JuniorNet for the littlest kids
- Toy computers
- ISPs for kids
- Browsers for kids
- Kids' portal + filtering
- Kids' sites with clubs for safety
- A sample family contract for a child's Internet use (for other examples, go to this page in GetNetWise.org).
* Note: These are not product reviews or tests; they're meant to bring to your attention milestones in children's online-safety technology development. Comments from readers on their own experiences with these products and services are most welcome - and, with your permission, we publish them. Please email us your own product reviews anytime.
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