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Tag: Digital Responsibility

  • LDB Redux

    It seems that my posts on the Lock Down Browser are very popular these days (mid terms must be coming), but it is interesting what has come out of some of the comments – a number of ways to defeat the system. Most obviously, the easiest way is to have another machine or internet device…

  • Enhancing Child Saftey Online

    The Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States has released a report on the risks that exist online for kids in the US. Some of the findings: Bullying and harassment, most often by peers, are the most frequent threats that minors…

  • Who was/am/will I be?

    With all the pros and cons floating around about Twitter, I finding that as much as anything else, it is an interesting tool to drop a suggestion into my usual echo chamber – and if I can get more than one idea out of the chamber’s soundings, that means that there might be something to…

  • US moves on Cyberbullying

    I can only hope that while Harper is getting busy “naming 14 year old criminals” he remembers that there might be some role for the federal goverment (CRTC?) to suggest to the provinces that they might want to bring in something similar to this within their existing provincial curriculums – the cynic in me thinks……

  • Posting Safety

    This is an interesting post to have stumbled on (paper). After all the news about how social networking sites are dangerous in terms of sexual predators that may lurk within. Here is some of the first research to look at what the case truly might be from within the world of the user, not the…