News tagged with internet predators
Study says cyberspace not so dangerous, but authorities urge caution, vigilance
Jan 18, 2009 |
3 / 5 (1) |
0
Maybe the Internet isn't just one massive predator preyground after all. Maybe our children are much safer in cyberspace than we thought.
Search results for internet predators
Facebook creates online safety board
Dec 07, 2009 |
not rated yet |
3
(AP) -- Social networking site Facebook on Monday said it is creating a global safety advisory board to protect its users against online predators such as sex offenders.
Facebook, MySpace ban New York sex offenders
Dec 01, 2009 |
not rated yet |
2
Facebook and MySpace have closed the accounts of 3,533 convicted sex offenders in New York state under a law combating online predators, officials said Tuesday.
Study: Enforcement spurs rise in Web sex arrests
Mar 31, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- More people have been arrested in recent years for sexually soliciting youths online, but the sharp increase comes from better enforcement, and the Internet remains a relatively safe social environment, researchers ...
Lizards change their diet to avoid predators
Dec 02, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
A scientist from the University of Salamanca and another from Yale University have shown that the presence of predators affects the behaviour of Acanthodactylus beershebensis, a lizard species from the Ne ...
Congress may clamp down on MySpace
May 11, 2006 |
2.4 / 5 (8) |
0
New legislation from Congress would block access to social-networking sites like MySpace and Facebook in schools and libraries, including instant-messaging services.
'Internet predator' stereotypes debunked in new study
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 19, 2008 |
4.6 / 5 (18) |
2
Contrary to stereotype, most Internet sex offenders are not adults who target young children by posing as another youth, luring children to meetings, and then abducting or forcibly raping them, according to researchers who ...
Yahoo launches online consumer privacy tool
Dec 07, 2009 |
not rated yet |
0
(AP) -- Yahoo wants its users to know what it knows about them.
Postal services get exclusive '.post' address
Dec 11, 2009 |
5 / 5 (1) |
2
Global postal services will soon have their own address on the Internet, after the web's authority for assigning domain names ICANN, said on Friday that it had approved the new address dot post (.post).
Your computer could open door to cyberpredators
Apr 29, 2009 |
2.3 / 5 (3) |
0
They're hacking into computers, secretly watching girls on webcams, and using sophisticated techniques to disguise child pornography and thwart law enforcement. Across the globe, men with advanced computer and Internet skills ...
Headwater stream nutrient enrichment disrupts food web
Dec 17, 2009 |
4.2 / 5 (6) |
0
Human activity is increasing the supply of nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, to stream systems all over the world. The conventional wisdom -- bolstered by earlier research -- has held that these additional nutrients ...
List of search results for internet predators
