{"id":955,"date":"2014-07-11T10:06:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/internetsafety.trendmicro.com\/?p=955"},"modified":"2014-07-11T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T18:06:10","slug":"wwr_7jul14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/internet-safety\/blog\/wwr_7jul14\/","title":{"rendered":"Must Reads: Amazon Sued for Kindle Fumble, 99-Day Facebook Cleanse, Bike-powered Phone Charger from Students"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lto_pic\"<\/a>By Lynette Owens<\/p>\n

Week of July 7, 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.<\/p>\n

AMAZON SUED FOR KINDLE APPS FUMBLE \u00a0<\/b>It is truly stunning that after a heavily publicized case against Apple, and a subsequent one against Google, the US Federal Trade Commission is taking Amazon to task<\/a> for the same mistakes.\u00a0 They allege that through specific apps on Amazon\u2019s mobile devices like the Kindle and Kindle Fire, kids are able to rack-up lots of charges against a parents\u2019 credit card associated with the Amazon account for that device without parent knowledge.<\/p>\n

But similar to iOS devices and Android devices, parents can already turn off in-app purchasing fairly easily to prevent this from happening in the first place.\u00a0 So, I wonder what more could a company could do to prevent kids from doing this in the future?\u00a0 The settings are there, the information is available (see Amazon\u2019s link here: http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=201347810<\/a>), and parents should be concerned and reading about these features before handing their kids any device, right?<\/p>\n

99-DAY FACEBOOK CLEANSE: \u00a0<\/b>The Dutch company Just B.V. is encouraging people to stop using Facebook for 99 days<\/a> and seeing how people feel during and after the break.\u00a0 According to Just, it\u2019s not a boycott of Facebook but a role reversal on Facebook\u2019s own surreptitious mood experiment<\/a> of worldwide users that has since outraged people and governments.\u00a0 You can join more than 6,000 people who have signed up since this past Tuesday at http:\/\/99daysoffreedom.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking forward to the results of this very interesting initiative.<\/p>\n

THE RICH KIDS OF SNAPCHAT: <\/b>The \u201cRich Kids of Instagram\u201d are back and now on Snapchat. The new social media trend<\/a> involves kids of wealthy families sharing photos of their luxurious, and sometimes scandalous, lives via Snapchat, a social media platform which claims to make images disappear after they\u2019re viewed. Hard to tell if these are really being posted by private school kids, but the surfacing of these images are a reminder that it\u2019s best to assume anything shared online is public and permanent.<\/p>\n

STUDENTS DREAM-UP BIKE-POWERED PHONE CHARGER:<\/b>\u00a0 And ending on a positive note, this is a great example of how young people are using their creativity towards inventing technology for the greater good.\u00a0 Students at Dana-Hall School<\/a> in Wellelsey, MA were invited into the Dragon\u2019s Lair, similar to the t.v. show Shark Tank, to present their business ideas to a group of consultants who question and assess their plans.\u00a0 The winning idea? A phone charger that is attached to and powered by peddling a bike.\u00a0 Good luck to the winning group in making their idea a reality!<\/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: Amazon Sued for Kindle Fumble, 99-Day Facebook Cleanse, Students Dream-up Bike-powered Phone Charger<\/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":[83,84,13,8,47,6,16,75,5,11,128,48,66,25,10,57,76,88,12,82,21],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-parents","category-for-teachers","tag-apple","tag-apps","tag-cell-phones","tag-digital-citizenship","tag-digital-literacy","tag-education","tag-facebook","tag-instagram","tag-internet-safety","tag-kids","tag-kindle","tag-media-literacy","tag-mobile","tag-online-privacy","tag-online-safety","tag-parents","tag-snapchat","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-social-networks","tag-teens","wpautop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t