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
Privacy is in the Eye of the Beholder
Social networking sites are in essence a web of concentric circles, where your sphere of connections overlaps others’ to varying degrees but not completely. For this reason, con ...
You Are What You (Don’t) Post
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to search my daughter’s name on Google. I was curious to see what the results might be for someone who has not yet established an online presenc ...
Internet Safety at home, at school – Part 2 of 2
This past July, on my way to meet with the IT Director of a local school district, I walked the halls of the high-school where his office was located. The building, like so many p ...
Internet Safety at home, at school – Part 1
While summer has ended, a lot has just begun. My kids will have new experiences, meet new people, learn new things this school year.
In the midst of all this transition, it ...