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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.
Elise Ackerman, The Mercury News
Jan 8, 2007
"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...
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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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Oct 28, 2005Susannah Fox
Nine out of ten internet users have taken evasive actions to avoid software intrusions, but their guerrilla tactics may not be enough. Two possible future scenarios are presented, along with questions for privacy professionals to consider.
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Jul 6, 2005Susannah Fox
Spyware and the threat of unwanted programs being secretly loaded onto computers are becoming serious threats online.
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Jun 7, 2005
This data set includes questions about spyware, adware, and related computer problems. Data set also includes questions asked of non-internet users about why they do not go online.
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Mar 17, 2005Amanda Lenhart
54% of parents with teenagers use internet filters – a big jump from 2000. Yet both teens and parents believe that youth do things online that their parents would not like.
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