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The technology industry is making an intensified national push to try to keep children safer online.
•Microsoft is sponsoring a national program called Generation Safe to provide training for teachers and school officials to build community networks for protecting children online.
•The International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium — which refers to itself as (ISC)², pronounced ISC-squared — is dispatching volunteers into classrooms to discuss cybersecurity.
•Non-profit groups StaySafeOnline.org and iKeepSafe.org, which are sponsored by large corporations, are providing online safety tips and teaching curricula to parents and teachers.
•GoGoStat Parental Guidance offers a free program that allows parents to monitor their offsprings' use of a PC or iPhone.
Smartphones, tablet PCs, Internet TVs and even video-gaming consoles let children access websites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, where cyberbullies, sexual predators and identity thieves prey on minors ranging from infants to teenagers.
"Kids really need to know the risks that are out there and what sensible behavior is," says Richard Harrison, spokesman for (ISC)².
Numerous studies show that children routinely engage in risky online behavior, such as befriending and sharing personal data and photos with strangers.
A recent survey by anti-virus software maker AVG found mothers of young children may be unwittingly exposing their offspring to unforeseen dangers. Some 82% of 2,200 mothers of children under age 2 in 10 nations had posted prenatal sonograms or baby photos on the Internet; U.S. respondents led, with 92% of mothers posting. That can make kids vulnerable to sexual predators, experts say. Photos can be widely viewed and quickly copied, says J.R. Smith, AVG's chief executive officer.
And data of all types persist indefinitely on the Web, says Caroline Knorr, parenting editor at Common Sense Media, a non-profit advocacy group. "Every sort of admissions office, whether it be a pre-school, a private school or college or an employer is going to Google your kid and find out everything they can," says Knorr.
Experts recommend that parents educate themselves about Internet technologies, talk to their children and proactively guide them to embrace safe online behaviors.
"Too many parents use the hope system: 'I hope my kid isn't doing anything inappropriate,' " says Ron Stevenson, product manager for GoGoStat.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-11-30-kidsonline30_ST_N.htm
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