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| Source | Link Info |
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| Article | Teen Brain Development and Decision-Making |
| Article | FCC Chair: Give Kids Internet, Carefully. |
| Article | Gossip Girls and Boys Get Lesson in Empathy |
| Resource/Research | Internet Addiction - Articles and research on Internet addiction: what makes the internet addictive, cybersex and infidelity online, online gambling addiction and more. |
| Article | Warning to parents about Formspring.me - Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls [May, 2010] |
| Article | Is Lockerz a scam site? - Information for parents [Oct., 2010] |
| Article | Internet Predators Usually Look for Teens Instead of Kids - from KidsHealth.org |
| Software | Kid's Web Browser [for PC only] |
| Software | Kidoz Creates Kid-Friendly Media Browser Visit Kidoz |
| Software | Kidzui - KidZui is a free Web browser, search engine and online playground for kids 3-12. [Available for PC, Mac OSX or as a Firefox AddOn] |
| Software | Zac Broswer - the first web browser designed for children with autism. |
| Software | My Kids Browser - an Internet-safe browser for kids. |
| Research | McAfee's Mapping the Mal Web: Revisited - [pdf; June, 2008] shows how and where the many risks are distributed across the Internet. For example, they report that it is very risky to register an email address with a ".info" domain and is likely to result in a high incidence of spamming, and that nearly 12% of ".info" web sites had a high or moderate risk of encountering malicious software. Second to ".info" were web sites from China who's URLs contain ".cn". |
| Research | Crimes Against Children Research Center at UNH - produces many papers on crimes against children online. |
| Research | Top 100 Search Terms by Kids Include Porn [August, 2009] |
| Resource | Tips to prevent sexting from ConnectSafely.org |
| Resource | Cybertipline - reporting child exploitation online |
| Resource | Sample Internet Safety Contracts: SafeKids contract for younger kids Contract for teens Internet Safety Rules Contract |
| Resource | A collection of sample Acceptable Use Policies for schools |
| Source | Identity Theft Against Children |
| Resource | 7 Steps to prevent identity theft |
| Resource | Child Identity Theft |
| Resource | What you can do about child identity theft |