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Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies

December 2008

Enhancing Child Safety and Online Technologies: Final Report of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force to the Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking of State Attorneys General of the United States

The Internet Safety Technical Task Force was created in February 2008 in accordance with the Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety announced in January 2008 by the Attorneys General Multi-State Working Group on Social Networking and MySpace. The scope of the Task Force's inquiry was to consider those technologies that industry and end users - including parents - can use to help keep minors safer on the Internet.

Executive Summary (51KB PDF)

Full Report, including Executive Summary and Appendices (2.7MB PDF)

Appendix A: Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Safety (400KB PDF)

Appendix B: Task Force Project Plan (50KB PDF)

Appendix C: Literature Review from the Research Advisory Board (266KB PDF)

Appendix D: Report of the Technology Advisory Board and Exhibits (419KB PDF)

Appendix E: Submissions from Social Network Sites (1MB PDF)

Appendix F: Statements from Members of the Task Force (600KB PDF)


Reports sent to Attorneys General prior to final report:

First Report to Attorneys General

Second Report to Attorneys General

Third Report to Attorneys General

Fourth Report to Attorneys General


Presentations
Teens Online: Stranger Contact and Cyberbullying: What the research is telling us (April 30, 2008) Amanda Lenhart, Pew Internet & American Life Project Presentation: Adobe PDF video

Youth & Law Enforcement Surveys (April 30, 2008) Janis Wolak, Crimes against Children Research Center Presentation: Adobe PDF video

Social networking sites, unwanted sexual solicitation, Internet harassment, and cyberbullying (April 30, 2008) Michele Ybarra, Internet Solutions for Kids, Inc. Presentation: Adobe PDF
video

Panel Q&A with Amanda Lenhart, Janis Wolak, and Michele Ybarra (April 30, 2008) Presentation: video

Youth Exposure to Pornography and Violent Web Sites (June 20, 2008) Michele Ybarra, Internet Solutions for Kids, Inc. Presentation: Adobe PDF video

Online Abuse and Crime By Youth: Results from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) Survey of Internet and At-risk Behaviors (September 24, 2008) Samuel McQuade, RIT Presentation: Adobe PDF video

Task force main page:

1 comment:

Sunny said...

What could be more perfect than their own commissioned task force turning around and debunking the claims of 49 AGs?

Priceless.