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Kid Safety on the Internet

Report Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown
By Judy Breck on The Evolution of Reputation
The above headline is from a New York Times story this week. Today the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, released the full report. The page with Berkman’s podcast about the report says: “An exhaustively researched report on the safety of the web is the result of a year of work for the Internet Safety Technical Task Force. The report reveals some surprises about just how safe the web and social networks really are for minors, and some recommendations for dealing with sexual predators, cyberbullying, and access to explicit content.”
It is useful to have a Harvard study commissioned by a task force created by 49 state attorneys general determine that the Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all. The findings challenge popular ‘comon sense and perceptions of online dangers.
The 278-page report was the result of a year of meetings between dozens of academics, experts in childhood safety and executives of 30 companies, including Yahoo, AOL, MySpace and Facebook.
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Posted on: January 16, 2009, 11:19 am Category: Uncategorized

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