#internet-safety

#internet-safety

The suspect was arrested on July 9 for possessing child sexual abuse material and was booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail. Reports indicated he was seen illegally downloading this material at his home.

Of the 1,000 children aged nine to 17 that Internet Matters surveyed for its 'Me, Myself, and AI' report, some 67 percent said they use AI chatbots regularly.

SSL was then, and is now, the minimum security a safe website should provide to its users. The protocol was also a major pain to set up and expensive to boot.

Almost half of young people prefer a world without the internet, with 70% feeling worse after social media use. There's growing support for digital curfews.

You should consider all aspects of safety on the internet, like personal data and financial security.

A catfisher creates a fake online identity, often using social media photos, to deceive individuals for manipulation or financial gain, leading to potential heartache.

A recent Wall Street Journal investigation found that dummy accounts that specified their age as 13 were regularly served up soft porn by Instagram's algorithms. Upon the accounts' creation, Instagram began showing the imaginary users 'moderately racy' content. 'Adult sex-content creators began appearing in the feeds in as little as three minutes,' the Journal reported.

In recent discussions, concerns about the safety of kids on the internet have been emphasized, particularly when comparing the current digital landscape to the 1990s.

When I was a kid, I ran around unattended all the time. On any given day, after school and on the weekends, I could be at a creek, a friend's house, the mall, a movie theater, a construction site, or even home in my room. And my parents had no idea. I remember being 10, running around on the construction equipment from the housing development three neighborhoods over at 9 or 10 p.m. My parents were cool with it.