The Interthreat: Parents, Teens, Risks, and Congressman Foley
WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station, kindly asked me to chat about parents’ challenges in managing Internet risks for children and teens. (I put up a bit on this earlier at Info/Law; since then, Massachusetts has learned of a teen allegedly lured to Georgia via Internet communication and then sexually abused, and also of a former Boston City Council member who was arrested after soliciting a person he believed was a 15-year-old via instant messaging.) I think the piece will run on tomorrow’s “Morning Edition” show, which I used to listen to on my commute to work at the Berkman Center. Host Deb Becker asked about the flaws and methods of bypassing filtering software, a subject of fascination to me after years with the OpenNet Initiative. I hope you’ll tune in to the broadcast in real time or on-line, and that you’ll share comments and thoughts in the Comments section.
Addendum: The show airs from 5:00 to 9:00AM Eastern Standard Time; I believe this involves two complete airings, one from 5-7 and one from 7-9.
Update: Audio should be available at WBUR’s site here.
Filed under: Filtering, Intermediaries, Internet & Society, Media, Privacy, Security
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