Friday 1 September

When Video Game Playing Becomes a Problem

Net Alert Newsletter
Feature Article: Keeping Safe in Social Networking Sites

Content Safeguards Extended to Mobile Phones

New safeguards to protect consumers from inappropriate or harmful material delivered over 3G mobile phones and similar devices will go a long way to protecting children from incidents such as those reported in today's Daily Telegraph, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan.

August 11, 2006
Geelong Advertiser Australia
Bullies go Online

Education experts have warned that local schools need to crack-down on bullies using cyberspace to harass and humiliate. They say vicious emails, SMS threats and hate-sites have replaced school yard taunts in a new form of abuse called cyber-bullying…``Education is the only way forward,'' he said. Moriac IT expert Rod Nockles, a member of a Federal Government body spearheading internet safety in Australia, said online filters and other technological fixes could only do so much to protecting young people from bullying.

August 10, 2006
Press Release
i-SAFE Raises Awareness About Online Predators as Social Networking Goes Mobile.

The tremendous rise in popularity of social-networking sites, which can now be accessed remotely through cell phones and other mobile devices, means that a staggering number of kids are using other technology means, in addition to their computer, to meet and interact with strangers on the Internet.