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WASHINGTON, Jan. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) announced today that Trend Micro has become the latest member of the global FOSI family. Trend Micro develops Internet content security and threat management solutions that make the world safe for businesses and consumers to exchange digital information. Like FOSI, Trend Micro is committed to promoting socially responsible corporate and digital citizenship. The Trend Micro Internet Safety for Kids...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online While the Internet has become a much safer place than it once was in its earlier, wild west days, there is still some concern that it’s not the safest place for kids and teens. Thanks to education and a few particularly eye-opening television specials about the dangers of talking to strangers on the Internet, these fears have waned somewhat. Now, the larger concern for parents of teenagers is how their information is stored and...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Teenagers are more connected than ever, and understand online privacy and safety issues differently than previous generations, according to a new study from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) that investigated the online generation gap between parents and teens. The survey found that found 91% of parents say they know what their teens do online and with their mobile phones. However, just 62% of teens say their parents are...
LONDON, April 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- iPad and smart mobile Apps were developed in record time for both the QITCOM 2012 conference and Exhibition and the Riyadh Book Fair. Key features of the Apps were not only the innovative design and ease of navigation and search but also the built-in EasyPublish tool that allowed journalists, event organizers and participants to post stories, in rich media in real-time. The QITCOM conference and exhibition 5-7 March 2012 by...
A majority of teenagers who use social networking sites say their online peers are mostly kind to one another online, but 88 percent still say they have witnessed people being mean and cruel as well, according to a new survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the Family Online Safety Institute, and Cable in the Classroom. With 95 percent of all teenagers 12 to 17 years old now online, and 80 percent being users of online social networks, many logging on daily, the Internet has...
Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez of the Dominican Republic and Margarita Zavala of Mexico Announce Commitment to Online Safety Worldwide LONDON and WASHINGTON, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), an international nonprofit organization dedicated to online safety, today launched the First Ladies Initiative for Online Safety. The goal of the Initiative is to engage first ladies from around the globe in a cross-cultural dialogue and programs that...
WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Kids' Internet Safety Expert Katie LeClerc Greer Asks: "Are the kids all right -- on social networks?" With the increasing popularity of online social networks where kids can play games, communicate with friends and create profiles, parents have many questions about what's appropriate and at what age. The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) applies to any Website collecting information from kids under the age of 13, and many...
Industry executives said on Tuesday that Internet companies need to be more accountable for the mass of personal data collected from users to guard against cyber crime. "Information is the currency of growth, but it's also increasingly become the currency of crime," Peter Cullen, chief privacy strategist for Microsoft Corp, said at the Family Online Safety Institute's annual conference."People have very high expectations when it comes to companies in terms of how they...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Washington, D.C. office of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide (Ogilvy Washington), an integrated global communications firm, announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). Ogilvy Washington is designing a core public relations campaign to enrich the online safety movement and is also supporting media outreach efforts around FOSI's 2010 Annual Conference and Exhibition. "FOSI has worked for...
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- This important, frequently updated collection of Internet safety resources, previously a service of the California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP), was in jeopardy when the program lost its funding from the California Department of Education. Upon learning of the impending loss of this valuable resource, ConnectSafely co-directors Anne Collier and Larry Magid offered to host it at ConnectSafely.org, inviting Anne Bubnic to maintain the...
