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Viral Video: Common Sense Media’s Kids’ Online Privacy Panel

Kara Swisher in Media on September 2, 2011 at 12:47 am PT

Here is a video from a panel I moderated earlier this week for Common Sense Media about online privacy, with a focus on the impact on children.

Another Week, Another Social Networking Poll (This Time, The Kids Are Alright)

Kara Swisher in News on October 18, 2010 at 6:00 am PT

Last week, Common Sense Media released a poll it conducted that showed parents fretting about the growing power of social networks. Now, TRUSTe, a Web privacy trustmark firm, has released another, titled “The Kids Are Alright,” which shows a little-nicer picture, especially for Facebook.

From the Department of the Obvious: Poll Finds Parents Are Worried About Privacy on Social Networks

Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2010 at 12:10 am PT

A national poll released today by Common Sense Media asking how well social networks protect kids online produced an answer that should come as a shock to exactly no one: Not very well, at least according to parents. A full 75 percent of them gave social networking sites such as Facebook a negative rating for the task.

Author Ken Auletta Talks About Google and Its "Lack of Emotional Intelligence"

Kara Swisher in News on November 12, 2009 at 12:50 am PT

Guess what? Google has too many Spocks and not enough Captain Kirks. This is one of the many interesting insights BoomTown gleaned from a video interview last night at a San Francisco book party for well-known New Yorker scribe Ken Auletta, who has just written a new book, “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.” This “lack of emotional intelligence,” said Auletta, reminded him a lot of the subject of one of his previous books: Microsoft. Oh, the delicious irony!