Lynette Owens
Lynette Owens is the Founder and Global Director of Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids and Families program. With 20+ years in the tech industry, Lynette speaks and blogs regularly on how to help kids become great digital citizens. She works with communities and 1:1 school districts across the U.S. and around the world to support digital literacy and citizenship education. She is a board member of the National Association of Media Literacy Education and serves on the advisory boards of INHOPE and U.S. Safer Internet Day, and on the national advisor council of Media Literacy Now. Follow her on Twitter @lynettetowens
End-of-Summer Reading Assignment: Top Tips for Social Media Safety
We’ve seen some dramatic changes over the past 11+ years that Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids & Families (ISKF) program has been running. But none stand out more th ...
Don’t wait for laws: Act now to protect your family’s online privacy
Last month, the Washington Post published a surprising op-ed from Mark Zuckerberg. In it, the Facebook boss called for greater regulation of the internet to protect individuals’ ...
6 Ways to Keep Gaming Safe and Fun for Kids
Video games are predicted to be US $90 billion market by 2020 with over 2.5 billion people in the world already playing them. Some of those people are your kids, and while you may ...
If you had one special power to make life online better, what would it be?
Announcing the 2019 What’s Your Story? video contest By: Lynette Owens If you had one special power to make life online better, what would it be? That’s the challenge posed ...