Facebook has announced a major revamp of how users control their privacy on the site. Among the changes, items posted online will each have their own sharing settings determining who can see them...

Some useful advice from  Rob Ellis    1.       If you know the identity of the perpetrator contacting their parents or, in the case of older children, the young person themselves to ask ...

Please see below for advice from the Yorkshire & Humber Grid for Learning concerning Formspring:- YHGfL have recently responded to some concerns around Formspring  Formspring is a social n...

  A new booklet has been launched today to help provide parents across the globe with the tools and the confidence  they need to help their teenagers improve their privacy and safety on Facebook ...

Children will be warned not to hand over intimate details to strangers they meet online, in the country's first "green cross code" for the internet which will be launched by the Government today. Re...

Orange UK has just launched a new film aimed at parents called "Not knowing's not enough".  You can view this on Orange's safety website here  (see the film link on the right hand side of the page)Â...

When you're searching on Google, we think you should have the choice to keep adult content out of your search results. That's why Google have developed SafeSearch, a feature that lets you filter sexua...

Staff at Parkwood Primary School in Bradford demonstrate five key messages which underpin its whole school approach to e-safety. Pupils deliver an e-safety assembly to parents, and Education Bradfo...

As every cautious scientist will tell you, you can never prove that something is absolutely safe and no one would want to gamble with the health of children. However given the latest worries about Wi-...

Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and Twitter - An advisory note for school employees Cases involving inappropriate use of various social networking sites are being referred to HR on a weekly basis.  A numbe...

Social networking websites, particularly those popular with children and young people, are frequently on the receiving end of criticism. When a Lincolnshire schoolgirl ran away to France with a 49-yea...