FourSquare is a mobile/geolocation/social-network/meetup app that allows people to post their current locations to their friends—OR, it’s a great way to get into trouble.
Or both.
Ron Davis, blogger and InternetSafety.com employee, quickly found that the social app could very easily lead people to sharing more information than would be safe or sensible. After receiving a friend [...]

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David Schwimmer has a strong personal motivation for taking the issue of online predators to the stage and the screen.
Schwimmer has long been a champion of women’s issues and is on the board of the Rape Foundation in Santa Monica. His interest in online predators and online safety began when he noticed an increase in [...]

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Our CTO Aaron Kenny says that his concerns with ChatRoulette go beyond just concerns of minors being exposed to indecent or pornographic content

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This past weekend YouTube rolled out a rather impressive security feature, acknowledging that much of the content on the site is not exactly family-friendly.
The immensely popular video-sharing network is owned and operated by Google, and Safety Mode is similar to the “safe-search” we know from their search engine. In its blog post on the new [...]

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The most recent study from the Kaiser Family Foundation on teen media use presents an interesting portrait of the younger generation.
While the report shows what many of us would expect, that teen screen time is rapidly expanding and that emerging mobile technologies are keeping kids aged eight to 18 glued to rich media more than [...]

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Shane Kenny, President, COO, and Founder of InternetSafety.com, gives his thoughts on what it takes to present your company at a mammoth trade show like the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
On Preparing for the Show
Planning gets into full swing for CES in mid-October and everything has to be done and on its way to [...]

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Facebook has recently rolled out more user-intensive security measures in order to guard users privacy and encourage members of the site to actively select how they want their content shared. If you’ve been to the site this week you’ve seen a screen asking you to determine or redetermine who can view your postings, photos, etc.
One [...]

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My first introduction to Internet safety was the story of Alicia Kozakiewicz, the girl who was abducted by an Internet predator and underwent unspeakable horrors while held in his basement for four days. (read her story here.)
Though Alicia’s story is a clear-cut warning about meeting online strangers, the topic of online predators is probably the [...]

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We all do our part to promote Internet safety and awareness, but I don’t think anyone is doing more than these guys. At least not when measured in feet above sea level.
Mandy Homer and Gavin Lewis of Gloucestershire, UK, are planning on climbing the famed Mont Blanc in Switzerland in order to promote the Think [...]

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According to a survey by Retrevo, one in five iPhone users watch porn on their iPhone.
Twice as many iPhone users view porn than their Blackberry owning counterparts. I’m not sure if this is more a statement about the mentality of the iPhone user vs the Blackberry user, or about the capabilities of the two devices.
Retrevo [...]

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