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    Has the violence that occurs in our neighbourhoods found its way inside the school? This guide lists out all you wanted to know about safety issues in schools and how parents can help to make schools safer.

    An excellent collection of articles and features and links with a short synopsis on issues like rating, filtering and labelling of online content.

    LittleBrother, is a Windows 95/NT monitoring software solution that continuously monitors and records network and Internet traffic. This application allows the administrator to utilise a built-in and regularly updated database of web sites and configure categorised web sites as productive or unproductive.

    Data protection and privacy laws are spreading widely as individual countries create their own privacy rules. Privacy Exchange works to create a new global resource that brings together transnational and cross-cultural views on privacy and data protection -- allowing companies, governments, consumers, experts and the media to track the emerging global privacy system.

    The CAF (Computers and Academic Freedom: Sex, Censorship, and the Internet) pages discuss issues related to online free speech.

    Irritated by banner ads on your favourite web pages. The Internet Junkbuster software has control over the keywords, phrases and can change them. Simply set your browser's HTTP Proxy service to wonder.ca, Port 8000 and you are on.

    A collection of articles on online privacy issues, pornography on the Internet, organisations and resources.

    Remember that people online may not be who they seem. Thus, someone indicating that "she" is a "12-year-old-girl" could in reality be an older man. From the Federal Bureau of Investigation-Educational Web Publication, safety tips for kids on the Internet and also real life incidents involving FBI men. You can also report if you find child pornography.

    SafeKids.Com has tips, advice and suggestions to make you and your family's online experience fun and productive. The site serves as a directory for articles and issues, links and searching, child safe search engines, parental control software etc.

    Add your views on this parenthood page on issues like censoring, filtering the contents and rating the material on the net.

    Three articles titled ' Teen Safety on the Information Highway, Child Safety on the Information Highway, Protecting Our Children From the Internet (and the World)' should be able to give you confidence on allowing your precious ones surf.

    Cyberspace is like a big city. But, like any community, there are also people and areas that you ought to avoid and others that you should approach only with caution. Here's where you can check them out…

    A number of software packages that try to help keep children away from unsafe sites on the Internet. These are not ideal solutions, but they help you take the first step to protecting your children from the evils of cyberspace.

    From 'The Police Notebook', the pages are presented in a slide-show and contain questions and answers to help kids protect themselves on the web. Parents can also guide kids through the pages and discuss how these ideas apply to them.

    Log in for a directory providing a comprehensive listing of parental control, blocking and filtering software programs to help make the Internet a safe experience for your child.

    Nothing replaces parental supervision and input, but these programs can lend a hand. A great collection of downloads for blocking unwanted material on your desktop.

    Don't go out alone, always tell an adult where you're going, say no if you feel threatened, these are the rules. The public awareness campaign for teen girls is about online and general safety for teenaged girls.

    Managing access to obscene and objectionable material in libraries through the web is the main topic discussed here. Read more about media reports on online pornography, universities banning Internet news groups and other related material.

    Online Privacy Guide http://www.interactivehq.org/html/privacy.htm The internet industry is committed to promoting electronic commerce while protecting consumer privacy. This page is a compilation of useful links to organisations active on the privacy issue.

    Most of the surfers would know a thing or two about net nanny. The site features discussions on regulating the content on the net, protecting users' privacy, use of software for blocking content etc.

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