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Safety Top Concern For Users Of Online Classified Sites
With online classified sites becoming increasingly popular with Internet users, one of their top priorities is the safety of such sites.
A new survey commissioned by Kijiji, eBay’s free local classified site, found 36 percent of visitors to online classified sites are concerned about ads that may be misleading or fraudulent.
More than a quarter (28%) of visitor’s worry their email address will be spammed, while 26 percent are concerned about getting a computer virus and 24 percent are concerned about classified ads that may have adult content.
Google Talks Online Child Safety
Google is part of the "PointSmart ClickSafe Task Force," which is an organization that was set up to help keep kids safe online. This week, the task force released its Recommendations for Best Practices for Online Safety and Literacy, which it has been working on for nearly a year.
Symantec Launches Online Safety Service For Parents And Kids
Symantec has officially launched OnlineFamily.Norton, an Internet safety service designed to help parents monitor their children’s online activity.
The launch coincides with the start of Internet Safety Week, which began today. The service is available for free until January1, 2010.
Safety Group Calls For Cell Phone Ban While Driving
The National Safety Council is urging motorists to stop using cell phone and messaging devices while driving, and is calling on businesses to implement policies prohibiting it and governors and legislators in all 50 states to pass laws banning the behavior.
EU Lawmakers Approve Online Child Safety Program
The vote’s been tallied, and the European Union’s new Safer Internet program turned out to be roughly as controversial as claiming that water’s wet. While almost three percent of members abstained, a full 96 percent of the European Parliament agreed to spend 55 million to protect children online.
Pfizer Launches Site On Medicine Safety
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer said today it is launching a Web site aimed at educating healthcare professionals, patients and the public about medicine safety."We want to increase understanding of the industry’s system for ensuring medicine safety," said Dr. Joseph M. Feczko, chief medical officer for Pfizer.
Yahoo Adds Safety Alerts To Search
Yahoo opened the beta test of SearchScan in several countries to help safeguard people against potentially dangerous links in their search results.
Virginia Schools To Teach Internet Safety
In an effort to prepare children and teens for the potential stranger danger on the Internet, Virginia is the first state to make Internet safety classes for all grade levels.It’s hard being first and one might imagine all 49 pairs of eyes (assuming one set of eyes per state, of course) will be on Virginia to see how educators implement the program, the messages used, and the methods by which the program is evaluated.
MySpace Safety Efforts May Backfire
For someone who isn’t 17, I have to admit that I spend a fair amount of time digging around in MySpace and trying to understand how all the pieces fit together. Indeed, MySpace help is an an important element of my tech Q&A blog too (where I offer tech support and, specifically myspace help).