Safer Internet: Maintain Privacy for Your Kids

Summary

In addition to recommendations covered in earlier sections, certain users may be more vulnerable
Infants, teenagers, grandkids, aging parent / partner may be unaware, less experienced, naive, impulsive, or be memory-/judgment-impaired
[1] Provide safe environment, and teach/model awareness and safer online practices
[1] Technology, e.g., parental controls, might help -- though more tech-savvy kids may be able to bypass?
[1] Extra caution about social media: any text, photos, videos are posted -- by child or you -- will be online forever, with greater impacts on future careers, relationships, etc.
[1] Location: Avoid posting anything that can give away your child's location or that might embarrass the child later in life

References

{TCYOP-4: 171-173; TCYOP-3: 145-147}
sections: Refs: iOS; IoT, Toys; macOS; Phones; School; Shopping; Social Media, YouTube; Teens
Wikipedia: cyberbullying
Common Sense Media apps, web sites
Safer Internet Day each February
NYT Learning Network Crosswords: Internet Safety .puz; 5/15/2003; Social Media 11/7/2011
The Best Apps to Keep Your Kid Safer Online & Manage Screen Time NYT; 5/7/2024
How to Protect Your Parents From Elder Fraud and Scams LH; 11/14/2023
The A.I. Chatbots Have Arrived. Time to Talk to Your Kids.
experiment together; talk about how chatbots make you feel;
get to know the technology and its limitations; stay on top of new developments; NYT; 3/22/2023
How to Set Up an Apple Watch for Your Kids Wired; 10/4/2022
An Apple Watch for Your 5-Year-Old? More Parents Say Yes. NYT; 9/1/2022
How to Limit What a Toddler Can Do When You Hand Over Your iPhone or iPad MR; 12/20/2021
Why Apps Suddenly Want to Protect Kids
new British guidelines are influencing what U.S. internet companies do to protect American children; NYT; 12/9/2021
Is It Too Soon to Give My Kid a Tablet? NYT; 12/1/2021
What's One of the Most Dangerous Toys for Kids? The Internet. NYT; 11/24/2021
Australia proposes teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids Reg; 4/30/2021
Microsoft Edge is getting a Kids Mode to add 'guardrails' to browsing the web custom browser themes, Bing SafeSearch; Verge; 2/16/2021
How to Protect Your Family's Privacy During Remote Learning NYT; 8/21/2020
Why Parents Should Pause Before Oversharing Online NYT; 8/4/2020
Microsoft launches new Family Safety app for iOS and Android content filters, location sharing, and much more; Verge; 7/28/2020
TikTok Broke Privacy Promises, Children's Groups Say NYT; 5/14/2020
Millions of passwords for hit kid's game Webkinz leaked online TNW; 4/23/2020
Teaching Your Kids to Be Safe Online: A Hasty Primer NYT; 4/2/2020
These Students Are Learning About Fake News and How to Spot It NYT; 2/20/2020
How Parents Can Get Involved on 'Safer Internet Day' LH; 2/11/2020
How to change your kid's adult Apple ID account to a child account MW; 1/22/2020
Why an internet that never forgets is especially bad for young people Obsessive documentation of one's life online has made it hard for young people to shed their past identities and might have bad effects for society at large; MIT; 12/27/2019
Video Games and Online Chats Are ‘Hunting Grounds’ for Sexual Predators NYT; 12/7/2019
How to Protect Your Children From Online Sexual Predators
Set rules for when and how your child can interact with others online;
Spend time with your child on new games and apps;
Talk to your child about online safety, and listen;
Encourage your child to raise any concerns with a trusted adult;
Be on the lookout for warning signs of abuse;
Educate your child about blocking users who make them uncomfortable;
Don’t blame your child if abuse arises;
Take charge as your child’s online protector. No one else will; NYT; 12/7/2019
Why you need to teach your kids about data privacy TNW; 11/23/2019
How Photos of Your Kids Are Powering Surveillance Technology Millions of Flickr images were sucked into a database called MegaFace; NYT; 10/11/2019
The Simplest Way to Freeze Your Child's Credit 10/2/2019
How to Safeguard Children Against Cyberbullying NYT; 9/5/2019
Mom and Dad, It’s My (Digital) Life according to your children, 'sharenting' undermines their autonomy; NYT; 9/2/2019
When Children Use Technology, Let Common Sense Prevail All things in moderation is a good way to think about it, says Jessica Grose, the editor of NYT Parenting; NYT; 8/28/2019
How to Protect Your Parents From Online Dating Scams LH; 8/26/2019
Keep These Apps Off Your Kid's Phone MeetMe; Grindr; Skout; WhatsApp; TikTok; Badoo; Bumble; Snapchat; Kik; LiveMe; Holla; Whisper; Ask.fm; Calculator% (and many other calculator apps that hide photos, videos and other files); Hot or Not; LH; 8/22/2019
America's elderly seem more screen-obsessed than the young Seniors spend nearly ten hours a day in front of televisions, smartphones and computers; Econ; 8/14/2019
How to Protect Our Kids' Data and Privacy Wired; 7/7/2019
Teach Your Kid About Digital Safety Internet Awesome from Google;
Interland: 4 games -- some Q&A, some movement, quizzes:
Reality River: spot fake news, recognize the signs of a scam and understand phishing.
Mindful Mountain: consequences of being an "oversharer"
Kind Kingdom: what to do about cyberbullies
Tower of Treasure: create a strong password; LH; 6/28/2019
Becoming a Digital Grandparent video chat; NYT; 6/5/2019
Listen, parents, here are 3 reasons you shouldn't use child tracking apps
1. Companies are tracking for profit;
2. Risks of leaking private data;
3. It can break trust with child; TNW; 5/20/2019
Old, Online, And Fed On Lies: How An Aging Population Will Reshape The Internet as more seniors go online, they are largely being left out of digital literacy efforts, making them targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric; BF; 4/3/2019
New privacy bill would give parents an 'Eraser Button' and ban ads targeting children Verge; 3/12/2019
Do you see a yield sign in QuickTime Player for your Mac's FaceTime camera? you may have used parental controls to disable it; MW; 3/12/2019
How Equifax Complicates a Simple Task: Freezing a Child's Credit NYT; 3/8/2019
Suicide tips and other dark and dangerous content was found spliced in kids' cartoon videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids WaPo; 2/24/2019
The worrying trend of children’s data being sold on the dark web tax fraud, synthetic identities; TNW; 2/23/2019
When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online Kids googling themselves for the first time face shock, frustration, and sometimes excitement at content parents had been posting about them since their birth; Atl; 2/20/2019
Screen time inhibits toddler development, study finds TC; 1/28/2019

iOS

How to Keep Kids From Bypassing iOS 13.3's Communication Limits LH; 12/13/2019
Apple’s new parental controls on iOS can be bypassed Communication Limit feature in iOS 13.3 has some bugs; Verge; 12/12/2019
How parents can turn on iOS 12 Screen Time for their child's iPhone or iPad ApIn; 2/24/2019
How to Lock Your iPhone While Your Kid Uses an App Setting > General > Accessibility > Guided Access; LH; 2/20/2019

Internet of Things, Toys

Kids' Smartwatches Are a Security Nightmare Despite Years of Warnings five out of six brands tested by researchers would have allowed hackers to track kids -- and in some cases eavesdrop on them; Wired; 9/10/2020
EU orders recall of children's smartwatch over severe privacy concerns ENOX Safe-KID-One smartwatches contain several security flaws that let third-parties track and call children's watches; ZD; 2/5/2019