News for February 2006
- Week of February 26, 2006 - The new PC security risk
- Computer security was the top family-tech story this week, with reporters talking about the newest PC health risk and new
solutions...
- Week of February 19, 2006 - Blogging's upside and downside
- MySpace in particular and social-networking sites in general dominated kid-tech news this week, but with fresh
insights from a widely covered study at Northwestern University...
- Week of February 12, 2006 - Protection Against Porn
- The number of things online kids need protection from has grown quite a bit in the
decade-or-so we've had the Web. In online safety's early days, pornography was the
main blip on our radar screens. Then it was online predators. Lately, with cyberbullying,
blogging, and all manner of kid-published content, they're learning about how they can
protect themselves from each other and even themselves. The big news this week? That
oldest issue - protection against porn. Why? Because COPA, the Child Online Protection
Act of 1998, is back in the headlines...
- Week of February 5, 2006 - A Safer Internet
- The biggest kid-tech news this week was overseas - the EU's Safer Internet Day, with its global "blogathon," and an OECD
report linking computer literacy and kids' academic performance - but this news raises interesting questions here in the US...
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