{"id":886,"date":"2014-03-14T05:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=886"},"modified":"2014-03-14T05:56:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:56:58","slug":"wwr_10mar14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_10mar14\/","title":{"rendered":"What We’re Reading: Media Literacy and Ads, Private Google Searches, Let Kids Have Devices, a Stealth Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LynetteOwens_Trend_bw_edit\"<\/a>Week of March 10, 2014<\/i><\/p>\n

To help you keep up with what\u2019s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we\u2019ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we\u2019ve found most useful over the past week.\u00a0 What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet\u00a0@TrendISKF.<\/p>\n

TEACHING KIDS ABOUT ONLINE ADS<\/b>: \u00a0Illustrator Dominic Owen and animator Will Samuel recently created an interactive guide to teach children how Internet ads<\/a> work and how they may mislead. The guide, commissioned by the Internet Advertising Bureau in the U.K., uses animations that include content like cats and skateboards to keep the information playful, but help an 8-year old to understand how ads work.\u00a0 My favorite part?\u00a0 They use the phrase \u201cmaster of the world wide web. \u201c\u00a0 This is a great, empowering message to young people.\u00a0 Great humor throughout \u2013 well done!<\/p>\n

PROTECTING WHAT YOU GOOGLE : <\/b>Google has begun the world-wide roll-out of encrypting the terms and phrases we search<\/a> for, so that it will be protected from prying eyes.\u00a0 The company is responding to what it believes to be misuses like censorship, government spying, hackers, and the overall tide of public sentiment for more online privacy.<\/p>\n

The impact to limiting hackers is of great interest to us, since search-engine poisoning \u2013 hackers setting up fake, malicious websites and links that show up when you search on a term \u2013 is one of the many tactics we monitor that can potentially trick young people into clicking and downloading things they didn\u2019t intend.<\/p>\n

No timeline on when this will hit the US or countries outside of China right now, but it\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n

<\/b>LET THE KIDS HAVE DEVICES: \u00a0<\/b>Despite many attempts to counter fear-based messages designed to dissuade parents from allowing their kids to become tech-savvy, such as the One Good Thing campaign launched with this year\u2019s Safer Internet Day , the fear machine keeps rolling.\u00a0 In response to a piece by Chris Rowan claiming that all devices should be banned from those under age 12, David Kleeman serves up solid counter arguments<\/a> to her and to every similar effort ever made to scare parents into staying in the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been big proponents of pro-tech parenting for some time.\u00a0 Thank you, Mr. Kleeman!<\/p>\n

A STEALTH PHONE<\/b>: Company FreedomPop has built the Privacy Phone<\/a>, a phone they claim protects the user from privacy infringement. The phone includes bank-quality 128-bit encryption for voice calls and text messages, shuttles application and Internet data through an encrypted virtual private network, enables you to change phone numbers as many times as you desire, blocks all unsolicited\u00a0incoming\u00a0calls\u00a0and text messages and claims it protects against phishing websites that want to steal your confidential data. \u00a0But as you can suspect, there are downsides to a phone like this on all sides.\u00a0 Bad people using it for bad reasons.\u00a0 And good luck using Google Maps if you don\u2019t have the GPS on. \u00a0Still \u2013 it\u2019s interesting to see a phone like this showing up now \u2013 when it could have been on the market for years.\u00a0 It\u2019s simply a testament to public awareness of and desire for privacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To help you keep up with what\u2019s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we\u2019ve compiled a list of stories, tips, and insights, we\u2019ve found most useful over the past week. <\/p>\n

This week: Media Literacy and Online Ads, Private Google Searches, Let Kids Have Devices, a Stealth Phone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[80,13,8,47,6,16,104,5,11,48,66,25,10,57,23,88,12,82],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-advertising","tag-cell-phones","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-privacy","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-social-networks","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}