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• Facebook Forms Board to Improve Safety Facebook is setting up a new advisory board to improve user safety on its social networking site, it said on Sunday.
• Protect Your Kids from Profanity-Laden YouTube Comments YouTube seems harmless enough, but kids who read certain user comments may get an eyeful. A handy Firefox extension filters out the bad stuff.
• Download and Print Free Mazes for the Kids Kids love mazes, and the Printable Mazes Web site has hundreds of them, all free for the downloading.
• Sony Loads Game Rating Guide onto Go The PlayStation Go will offer a guide to kid-friendly games in conjunction with the Entertainment Software Ratings Board.
• Keep Kids Safe Online: ZuiTube Videos for Kids Want to keep your kids away from YouTube's inappropriate content? ZuiTube serves up nothing but G-rated videos.
• Most Parents Ignore Parental Controls for Kids 80% of parents surveyed admit they don't activate software parental controls, despite their kids' unsupervised surfing, McAfee reports.
• Parents Clueless about Kids' Surfing Over half of all parents admit they have no idea what their children get up to when they log on, according to research from Trend Micro.
• Keep Kids Safe Online With Hassle-Free PC PC World blogger Rick Broida reviews kid-friendly search engines, browsers, and other tools to keep protect children online.
• Improve PC Speed and Security Use file management and deletion software to clean your hard drive, and child-friendly tools to protect your family's privacy.
• Keep Kids Safe Online: The OpenDNS Alternative For bulletproof, set-it-and-forget-it content filtering, look no further than OpenDNS. It's a snap to use, and it's free.
• Keep Kids Safe Online: The KIDO'Z Browser Slick, safe, and chock full of entertaining content, the free KIDO'Z browser lets kids play games, watch videos, and visit selected sites.
• Keep Kids Safe Online: The Quintura Search Engine This Yahoo-powered search engine provides a G-rated alternative to Google.
• Kidproof Your Home Office (and Officeproof Your Kid) Working at home may seem like a dream come true, but it can turn nightmarish once you add kids to the equation. Here's how to make your telecommute a little more child-friendly.
• Proposed Law Might Make Wi-Fi Users Help Cops A proposed U.S. law would require ISPs and possibly Wi-Fi router owners to store information about every user on their...
• Social Networking Sites Sign EU Pact on Child Safety Social networking sites signed an EU pact on child safety Tuesday.
• MySpace Evicts 90,000 Sex Offenders The social networking site cleans house, but keeping cyberspace safe for kids is a challenge on several levels.
• Study Accused of Exaggerating Kids' Online Safety Threats to children online were downplayed by MySpace study, some experts declare.
• A Parent's Guide to Safe, Simple Kid-Friendly E-Mail The Internet can be a dangerous place for children, but it's an increasingly necessary evil. Here's how to set up e-mail for your young'uns while maintaining parental control.
• Does Child Porn Fight Threaten Privacy? Analysis: Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's battle against child pornography raises issues of industry ties and civil rights.
• 20% of UK Kids Meet Facebook 'Friends' A quarter of 8- to 15-year-olds say they have actual strangers as virtual friends on social network sites.
• Parents Can Control Kids' T-Mobile Use T-Mobile becomes the latest carrier to allow parents to set limits on calls, text messages, and downloads for their children.
• Surprise! Kids Chat Online About Sex A British survey shows children explore adult sites, discuss sexual issues online.