Three researchers from Columbia University have completed a study determining Facebook users' perceptions of their privacy settings. By tracking and interviewing 65 students aged 18 to 25, they found that every single one of the participants were sharing personal information in ways they hadn't intended when setting up their privacy settings. While 95% of participants were initially confident that their….read more

If you didn't have motivation before to enforce strict privacy settings on your or your child's social networking profiles, here's a pretty convincing reason to do so. A new desktop app called "Creepy" asks for the Twitter or Flickr username of any given person then downloads every photo ever tweeted or uploaded….read more

Last week, popular kids network Nickelodeon announced a partnership with Common Sense Media to battle cyberbullying and other cybersafety issues. The initiative is part of Nickelodeon's The Big Help, a long-term effort to connect kids to important issues and information prevalent in their lives. Nickelodeon will feature on-air and online PSAs from different stars….read more

Officer Steve DeWarns is a police officer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 19 years of experience.  His expertise is Online Child Exploitation Investigations.  Officer DeWarns is the founder of Internet Child Safety. For the past 10 years, Officer DeWarns has dedicated himself to teaching online safety to parents and children.  He has worked with the F.B.I.'s….read more

Trench Reynolds is a noted cybercrime blogger whose publications include MyCrimeSpace, CraigsCrimeList , and The TrenchCoat.  His blogs have been cited in various news outlets including The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, Time, and CBS News.   SSI: Who are you? TR: I'm a 42-year-old married stepfather of two….read more

We just caught wind of an upcoming movie called "Trust" that is slated to come out some time next year.  Produced by David Schwimmer and starring Clive Owen Catherine Keener, "Trust" is a thriller about a teenage girl from an affluent Chicago suburb who is targeted by an online sexual predator. We have not yet seen the movie, but we suspect….read more