How Parents Can Promote Ethical Online Behaviours with Kids

Submitted by Matthew Johnson on 04 Oct 2013.

We generally think of our kids’ online and offline lives as being two separate things. In reality, they constantly overlap, flowing back and forth face-to-face in the schoolyard and through texts and social networks at home. But on the Internet there are lots of moral and ethical choices that don’t have to be made offline.

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Authenticating Information, Cyber Security, Digital Citizenship, Parents

Cyber Security Consumer Tip Sheet: Mobile Devices

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 10 Oct 2012.

As well as invaluable tools for keeping in touch with our friends, families and our work, mobile devices have become an increasingly big part of how we access the Internet. Unfortunately, while many smartphones are nearly as powerful as computers, we often don’t use the same caution with them as we do with our computers—and they often don’t have the privacy and security safeguards that come built into computers.

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Cyber Security, Digital Citizenship, Internet & Mobile

Keeping Safe Online: CIRA and MediaSmarts release latest Cyber Security tip sheet

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 20 Sep 2012.

CIRA and MediaSmarts have partnered on a series of five tip sheets to educate Canadians about online security issues. The 5th tip sheet in the series, Socializing and Interacting Online, looks at negative issues that can come up when interacting with others through networked technologies including phishing scams and hoaxes, and strategies for dealing with them.

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MediaSmarts and CIRA release cyber security tip sheet for online commerce

Submitted by MediaSmarts on 18 Jun 2012.

MediaSmarts has partnered with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) to develop the Online Commerce Cyber Security Consumer Tip Sheet – the fourth in a series of tip sheets on cyber security issues.

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Cyber Security, Internet & Mobile, Marketing & Consumerism, Online Marketing

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