Internet Safety

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Internet Safety Lectures | Internet Safety for Kids Page

The links below will take you to sites that promote Internet safety. They are a good place to start learning about what you can do as a parent to ensure that your child’s time online is, before anything else, safe.

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Child Internet Safety Sites

The following links will lead you to sites with information on Internet Safety. These sites are independent of and have no relationship with the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office. In short, we have no control over and are not responsible for their content.

• • NetSmartz – A program of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that offers Internet safety resources for parents, educators, teens, tweens, kids and law enforcement.

• • WiredSafety – “WiredSafety is the largest and oldest online safety, education, and help group in the world. Originating in 1995 as a group of volunteers rating websites, it now provides one-to-one help, extensive information, and education to cyberspace users of all ages on a myriad of Internet and interactive technology safety, privacy and security issues. These services are offered through a worldwide organization comprised entirely of unpaid volunteers who administer specialized websites, resources, and programs.”   Parry Aftab, Esq., an attorney who specializes in Internet law is their founder and executive director.

• • SafeKids.Com – According to USA Today, SafeKids.Com is “A complete safe-surfing kit and collection of information for parents. This site lays out the rules, the risks, the products, and the issues.” (Operated by Larry Magid, who is a columnist for the L.A. Times)

• • Disney’s Internet Safety page – Disney’s guide to Internet child safety. Tips on safe surfing, a list of Internet safety resources and safety rules.

• • FBI Parent’s Guide to the Internet – Internet safety tips for parents brought to you by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

• • GetNetWise – According to their site, “GetNetWise is a public service brought to you by Internet industry corporations and public interest organizations to help ensure that Internet users have safe, constructive, and educational or entertaining online experiences.” GetNetWise is a project of the Internet Education Foundation.

• • Federal Trade Commission – Child Internet safety articles from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

    Cyberbullying – Information on Cyberbullying

    Smart Phone Apps – Information on smartphone applications, or “apps”.

• • FBI’s Safe Online Surfing Internet Challenge – The FBI’s Safe Online Surfing Internet Challenge is a Web site designed for third- through eighth-grade teachers and students to learn about safe online surfing in age-appropriate “lesson games”. According to the site, “[t]op scoring schools in each category nationwide are awarded the FBI-SOS cyber trophy.”

• • NS Teens – A partnership between Sprint® and NetSmartz® Workshop dedicated to teaching teens and tweens about making safer choices online.

• • Yahoo! Safely – An Internet Safety resource for kids and parents from Yahoo!.

• • National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – As the nation’s resource center for child protection, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) spearheads national efforts to locate and recover missing children and raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation.

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Kid-Safe Search Engines

• • All Connect – Extensive catalog of kid-safe sites created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System.

• • Safe Search Kids – Google’s kid-friendly search engine.

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Online Fraud Information

• • Fraud.org – Information on various types of fraud, including Internet and telemarketing fraud, from Fraud.org, a project of the National Consumers League.

• • OnGuardOnline – Information on protecting yourself from online fraud from the Federal Trade Commission.
    

• • FTC Consumer Information – Information on how to protect yourself as a consumer online.

• • Internation Financial Scams – Information on international financial scams from the U.S. Department of State

• • “Nigerian” Email Scams – Information on “Nigerian” email scams from the Federal Trade Commission

• • Internet Auction Fraud – FBI – Helpful tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of Internet auction fraud from the FBI. (link is )

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Identity Theft

• • Identity Theft Resource Center – A non-profit organization devoted to helping people avoid and recover from identity theft.

• • Identity Theft – Federal Trade Commission – Information on identity theft and what to do when someone steals your identity from the Federal Trade Commission.

    Taking Charge: What to Do if Your Identity Is Stolen – Information on what to do when someone steals your identity from the Federal Trade Commission

• • Fight Identity Theft – Clear, concise directions on how to prevent identity theft and what to do if your identity is stolen.

• • Identity Theft – IRS – Information on Phishing and Identity Theft from the IRS.

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Home Network and Computer Security

• • The Ultimate Guide to Home Networking – Information on setting up and securing a home network (wired or Wi-Fi) from PC World Magazine.

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Facebook Privacy Settings

• • Avoid Facebook Disasters – from PC World Magazine.

• • Facebook privacy: a guide – from Ars Technica.

• • Facebook Privacy – Help and information on Facebook’s privacy settings from Facebook.

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TikTok Guidance

• • What Parents Need to Know About Online Safety

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Youtube Parental Guidance

• • Parental Guidance on Web Video for Children – From the NY Times.

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