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Is Keek Safe For My Child? And Other Mobile Apps

Keek Child pretending to be an Adult. He is about 10yrs old

There are so many new apps for mobile devices coming out every day that seem incredibly attractive to our children, but how do we know which are safe and which are not?  Firstly, if your child is under 13yrs of age, you need to limit your child’s ability to download free and paid apps without [...]

How Do You Get Facebook’s New Graph Search?

I got Graph Search!

Facebook’s “Graph Search” is slowly being rolled out here in Australia. Facebook’s Graph Search is a new way to search Facebook so that you can use Facebook profiles with very personal details to pin-point and drill down exactly who you want to find, weather they are a friend or not. This new search uses your [...]

BYO Computer Device To School – A Security Risk?

Where to now with School Laptops?

In December 2011 I wrote an article on the Rudd Govt initiative  the “Education Revolution” an Australian Government funded program set up by the Kevin Rudd Government in 2008 to fund a laptop for every incoming year 9 school student in Australia, a scheme which is finishing up after 4 years this June 2012. In my previous article [...]

Kids On Facebook With Adult Accounts!

Kids On Facebook with Adult Accounts

Or.. kids under 13yrs should NOT lie about their age and create adult accounts! Here’s the dilemma. You or your child under 13yrs decide its ok to have an account on Facebook (against the Terms of Service), but under the age of 13 years old you have to lie about your age to sign up [...]

You Can’t Automate Cyber Safety

You Can't Automate Cyber Safety

Filth & Magic Apps In the war against Cyber Bullying and Online FILTH! I’m constantly hearing parents asking for suggestions for computer timers and programs for blocking certain sites from young eyes. Most program developers would love to invent a fail safe app for parents to use to keep their kids totally safe online, (they’d [...]

Real Friends Don’t Back-Stab On Facebook!

Your Words Are Set In Stone Online

It used to be that when you had a disagreement or an argument with a friend, the worst that could happen is that they would “bad mouth” you behind your back. Local rumours might be spread, hurtful yes, but in many cases repairable, if on a small scale. If you were in the public eye, [...]

Facebook Dilemma, Should My Tween Be On Facebook?

Facebook 13+ Parent Access Should your kids be on Facebook?

From my article on ABC Technology + Gaming this week. Should kids under 13 years of age be allowed on Facebook? Should the age limit for Facebook, which is now 13+ be raised to 18+? From a recent article on Dawn.com: “WASHINGTON: Some 7.5 million of the 20 million minors who used Facebook in the [...]

R18+ Games For Australia After 10 Years! Podcast with iGEA’s Ron Curry

R18+ Classification for Games in Australia

Digital Breezes Podcast Episode 2. 29th July 2011 This weeks podcast is about the latest Standing Committee of Attorneys-General discussions that took place last Friday 22nd July in Adelaide, where they discussed the proposition that Australia finally have an R18+ classification for interactive games, or video games as they were previously known. What does this [...]