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Nov 20, 2012Mary Madden, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Amanda Lenhart, Maeve Duggan
Parents have a range of concerns about how their children’s online activities might affect their privacy and many have taken steps to monitor their children and encourage online safety
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The Pew Internet Project tracks online safety issues related to teens as well as adults, from cyberbullying to stranger contact to fraud.
Apr 18, 2007Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden
The majority of teens actively manage their online profiles to keep the information they believe is most sensitive away from the unwanted gaze of strangers, parents and other adults.
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Feb 13, 2007Amanda Lenhart
Teens and parents are taking steps both technical and non-technical to protect themselves/teens online, including on social networking websites.
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Jan 25, 2007Susannah Fox
The base of the internet is broadening to include more people with less education than ever before, while older Americans are still overwhelmingly offline. Internet users who have experienced spyware act differently online from those who have not. Th...
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Chris Cobbs, Orlando Sentinel
Jan 8, 2007
"Teens may be looking for new friends or searching for their identity. They may want to assert their independence, or maybe just flirt.Their reasons vary, but more than half of the nation's online youth ages 12 to 17 are connecting with one another v...
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Elise Ackerman, The Mercury News
"Who says teens don't care about online privacy?Since MySpace.com took off three years ago, parents have fretted about online risks to their children's safety, requesting meetings with local police and school officials to talk about Internet predator...
Jul 11, 2006Lee Rainie, Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden
The Project's formal testimony submitted to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Telecommunications Subcommittee for the Hearing on social networking websites and the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006.
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Jul 11, 2006Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Lee Rainie
A summary document of Pew Internet Project data on youth and technology prepared in advance of testimony by Pew Internet staffer Amanda Lenhart at the House Telecom subcommittee hearings.
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Feb 1, 2006Amanda Lenhart
Amanda Lenhart joins Talk of the Nation with guests danah boyd and Parry Aftab in a series of interviews on the phenomenon of the popular social networking website Myspace.com.
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The Associated Press, USA Today
Nov 24, 2005
"More than half of U.S. Internet users went online for news and information about Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the vast majority having visited the websites of traditional news organizations such as CNN and MSNBC, a study finds. Of the Americans wh...
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Nov 3, 2005Lee Rainie
Seven basic things to understand about Americans and their privacy in the internet age.
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