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Online Predators - Just an Urban Legend?

by Bethany Sanders, Posted Jan 15th 2009 10:00AM

It's enough to send a chill up any parent's spine: a 14-year-old girl agrees to meet an online friend, presumably another teen, without telling her parents. Only the "teen" turns out to be a 38-year-old man ... and a predator. To parents and child ...

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Google's Street View puts children in danger?

by Sandy Maple, Posted Oct 12th 2008 12:00PM

Thanks to Google's Street View, anyone with an Internet connection can virtually tour the streets of cities across the United States. The tool allows you to see 360° images of neighborhoods just as if you were driving down that very street. It's ...

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Hey online predators, Hayden Panettiere helps teen girls get 2 SMRT 4U!

by Nadine Silverthorne, Posted Jun 15th 2007 3:05PM

As the cheerleader who self-heals the most extreme wounds on TV's hit show, Heroes, Hayden Panettiere is pretty invincible. The fact that she hasn't made it into the tabloids pantyless... well that makes her a pretty good role model these days. ...

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Miss USA helps cops nab sex predator

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Apr 25th 2007 1:32PM

Do you ever wonder what Miss USA does all year while she's "reigning" over all the other Misses in the country? I figured it was a busy schedule of opening shopping malls and/or hiding your excessive partying antics, but apparently this year's beauty ...

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Teens know to limit personal info online

by Jonathon Morgan, Posted Apr 22nd 2007 11:03AM

As someone who's part of the last generation that wasn't connected throughout my childhood via blogs and social networking sites, I've often wondered how today's kids will navigate their lives as adults with so much personal information accessible to ...

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FBI launches Safe Online Surfing site

by Nadine Silverthorne, Posted Oct 25th 2006 4:30PM

Talking about online predators is never fun. It is, however, necessary. Now the Miami FBI field office has launched an FBI-SOS: Safe Surfing Online Internet Challenge that, according to their tagline, is "Empowering the Internet Generation to ...

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Homeland Security worker arrested in online sting

by Melissa Summers, Posted Apr 6th 2006 9:03AM

We've talked a lot about the dangers of online pedophiles targeting children on MySpace and in other internet communities. Who would have guessed we needed to worry about our own Homeland Security workers. Brian Doyle, Homeland Security spokesman, ...

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