Making news this week is California's potential bill that would force social networks like Facebook to let parents access their child's account(s) and require privacy settings to be set at the highest level by default. Proposed by Senator Ellen Corbett, the "Social Networking Privacy Act" or SB 242 was initially introduced in February and is now on its….read more

Bing, Microsoft's answer to Google, recently partnered with Facebook to make online search more social. As Bing stated in a blog post, this new feature enables users to include "your Facebook friends into your search experience." The Bing post describes the frequency with which we ask our friends for advice on things that we would probably also look….read more

You may have seen the exciting news today.  SocialShield recently received $10 million in funding  from Venrock Partners and U.S. Venture Partners to further empower parents to defender their kids against cyberbullying, over-sharing, and sexual predators.  This investment will help the company build out new features such as our Friends Engine™ which runs every….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