For the past two days, Good Morning America (GMA) has been running an Internet safety series on “Sexting,” a new phenomenon of the digital age. Internet safety expert Parry Aftab has been on the show for the past two days to take questions from parents, and recommend strategies for parents to keep their kids from [...]

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Ken Prillaman was fortunate. He found out in time.
His stepdaughter, 13 at the time, was adopting a new persona on her myspace page, and this new persona was attracting the wrong sort of attention.
Ken and Debbie Prillaman were shown the younger daughter’s myspace page by her older sister, and they were shocked by what they [...]

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Everyone should tune into Oprah tomorrow or record it if you have to work. Tomorrow’s show, titled “Lured at 13: Held Captive As a Sex Slave,” tells the story of Alicia, who was groomed and eventually abducted by an online predator.

We are familiar with Alicia’s story through our interaction with Enough is Enough, and readers [...]

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A recent opinion article on StatesmanJournal.com deals with how to protect your kids online, and has many good, salient points about family involvement and Internet safety. However, it leaves out the most important step, which is actually securing your computer with Internet safety software.
What the article’s author, Debbie Joa, gets absolutely right is the fact [...]

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The May 2009 Issue of Reader’s Digest has a big article about “sexting”—the popular term for sharing lewd pictures or texts through mobile devices, a growing trend among teens. The article cites Safe Eyes on page 121, in the box “Wanted: Peace of Mind,” as one of the other options available to parents.
Unfortunately the article [...]

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When the news is filled with reports of stimulus money being spent on executive bonuses, lavish corporate retreats, and practically anything but helping the average American, it’s nice to see that some of the stimulus money is being spent wisely.
Govtech.com is reporting that $50 million in stimulus money is going to the U.S. Department of [...]

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Much has been made in the blogosphere of the recent study Red Light States: Who Buys Online Adult Entertainment? by  Benjamin Edelman. Many look at some of the study’s findings, specifically that some conservative states have higher subscription rates to pornographic web sites than some traditionally liberal states, and use that to drive home a political point about hypocrisy.
Edelman’s data [...]

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