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Nov 20, 2012Mary Madden, Sandra Cortesi, Urs Gasser, Amanda Lenhart, Maeve Duggan
Parents have a range of concerns about how their children’s online activities might affect their privacy and many have taken steps to monitor their children and encourage online safety
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The Pew Internet Project tracks online safety issues related to teens as well as adults, from cyberbullying to stranger contact to fraud.
Jul 6, 2005Susannah Fox
Spyware and the threat of unwanted programs being secretly loaded onto computers are becoming serious threats online.
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Jun 7, 2005
This data set includes questions about spyware, adware, and related computer problems. Data set also includes questions asked of non-internet users about why they do not go online.
More in: Safety, Generations, Digital Divide, Seniors
Mar 17, 2005Amanda Lenhart
54% of parents with teenagers use internet filters – a big jump from 2000. Yet both teens and parents believe that youth do things online that their parents would not like.
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Mar 16, 2005Amanda Lenhart
This short presentation addresses the Project’s late 2004 findings on the steps that parents are taking to protect their teenage children online.
Ellen McCarthy, The Washington Post
Sep 3, 2003
Nearly half of all Americans surveyed say they are worried that terrorists could launch attacks through the networks connecting home computers and powerful utilities, a study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project found.
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Aug 31, 2003Lee Rainie
Half of Americans fear terrorists might mount successful cyber-attacks against key American utilities and businesses.
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Dec 14, 2002Lee Rainie
Lee's lecture covered Pew's basic findings related to privacy and information disclosure.
More in: Identity, Safety
Winda Benedetti, Seattle Post-Intelligener
Sep 17, 2001
Ever since the World Trade Center transformed into the mouth of hell last Tuesday, a good many of my fellow Americans have turned to God for solace. And I have turned to the Internet.
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Karen Thomas, USA Today
Jun 20, 2001
Many Net-surfing teens and preteens receive unwanted sexual solicitations from strangers online, but most are blasé about it, say two studies out Wednesday; kids assume it's all part of being online.
May 8, 2001Lee Rainie
At the most fundamental level, Americans would like the presumption of privacy when they are online, and they would like to be in control of when pieces of their identity are given out.
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