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
The “What’s Your Story?” Campaign
Today marks the launch of “What’s Your Story?”, a campaign designed to help educate kids, parents, and teachers about staying safe online. We are inviting anyone over the age ...
YouTube’s Attempt at Parental Controls
Earlier this month YouTube made available a new feature that is intended to help users block others from viewing videos that might be inappropriate for them. It doesn’t remove a ...
What you can do about Child Identity Theft
Child identity theft occurs when a child’s personal information is used by someone for that imposter’s own gain, such as to obtain financial benefits or to clear a criminal rec ...
Brittany Murphy, Curiosity, and You
As a young star in movies that were highly popular with a younger audience, Brittany Murphy may currently be a search engine topic of choice among your own children. Regardless of ...