News for August 2006
- Week of August 06, 2006 - "Age-verification"
- Age verification keeps coming up as the ultimate solution for safe social networking, and it was a key topic in kid-tech
news again this week, with a new twist on it and a new kids' product on the market.
- Week of August 13, 2006 - "Youth Internet Safety"
- The biggest news in Net safety this week was the much-anticipated "Second Youth Internet Safety Survey".
Here are key take-aways for parents.
- Week of August 20, 2006 - "The Entertainment Life of 12-to-24-Year-Olds"
- Research into the online life of teens continues is beginning to emerge. Last week was the milestone study at the
University of New Hampshire, this week some insights into the parenting of online teens.
- Week of August 27, 2006 - "Monitoring"
- Monitoring, not filtering, is increasingly in the news as the parental tool of choice for the social Web. Why? Because
as the Web gets more accessible in more places on more types of devices, it's getting harder for parents to rely on filters
to block specific sites at all access points.
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