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At the Future of Privacy Forum’s program on Thursday 1/28 (Data Privacy Day), Nat Wood with the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer and Business and Education Bureau discussed a new publication, “Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online.”   It’s a great new guide for parents, caregivers, and teachers to help them talk to kids about social networking, cyberbullying, sexting, and other online safety issues.  Check out the guide at www.onguardonline.gov.  To order free copies of the publication go to bulkorder.ftc.gov.

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Consumer Resources

Below are additional resources to more information about online privacy.

Consumer Guide to Online Privacy (PDF)
Consumer Online Privacy Survey
2008 Online Safety Survey
bNetS@vvy
www.onguardonline.gov
www.ikeepsafe.org/
www.getnetwise.org
www.fosi.org
www.enough.org

Other Organizations

National Caucus and Center on Black Aged:
http://www.ncba-aged.org/

National Consumers League:
http://www.nclnet.org/