CyberAngels

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CyberAngels

(CyberAngels Internet Safety Organization, Allentown, PA, www.cyberangels.org) A website that operates as an online program of the inner-city Guardian Angels group and is devoted to education and safety awareness on the Internet. Its all-volunteer help group was founded in 1995 by Gabriel Hatcher, along with Guardian Angels' founder Curtis Sliwa.

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(221.) Cyberangels (http://www.cyberangels.org), for example, is one of these websites.

Is COPA a cop out? The Child Online Privacy Protection Act as proof that parents, not government, should be protecting children's interests on the Internet

American campaign group Cyberangels returns an average of two children a week to their families from risky internet dates.

e.mail; Dangers of letting your kid date on the net

Parry Aftab, executive director of Cyberangels, a division of Guardian Angels and the largest online safety and educational program in cyberspace with about 1,200 members, told a Tokyo news conference that Japanese children need to be taught how to "enjoy the Internet safely."

Anticrime patrol group hosts int'l confab in Tokyo

PARRY Aftab, a New York-based lawyer who heads Cyberangels, says we have a golden opportunity in Britain to teach children how to use the Internet safely.

Carol Vordrerman's Internet column: Guarding your kids from filth on the Net; ANGELS FIGHT SCREEN PORN

Thomson Target Media's Curiocity's FreeZone kid Web site (http://freezone.com) received an award from Cyberangels, an online safety and educational program ...Another award, from the Vienna, Va.-based Mothers at Home organization, was presented to LATS op-ed columnist Cal Thomas for a piece he wrote wondering why a Vanity Fair magazine list of America's most influential women didn't include at-home mothers ...

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No, I'm not barking - the CyberAngels have arrived to save us all.

2001 a Web odyssey

In addition to ALA, nonprofit advisors include The Children's Partnership, Cyberangels, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, "Net Mom" Jean Armour Polly and the National Urgan League.

"Web-wide" resource for parents

18, 2009) ("In response to citizens' calls for assistance in dealing with online threats, the Guardian Angels launched CyberAngels in 1995.

Criminal liability for Internet culprits: the need for updated state laws covering the full spectrum of cyber victimization

"Teens write about private feelings and post suggestive pictures of themselves, and then assume that only the people they send it to or that they allow to see it will have access," says Katya Gifford of CyberAngels, an Internet safety organization.

Surf safely: if you post photos and videos of yourself online, or even just send IMs and e-mails, beware: It's easy for anyone to view the images and read your messages

One such group is WiredSafety, formerly known as CyberAngels, led by Parry Aftab, an experienced international attorney and author of The Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children In Cyberspace and A Parent's Guide to the Internet.

Cyber-democracy or cyber-hegemony? Exploring the political and economic structures of the Internet as an alternative source of information

specializes in helping adults, but other organizations can help adults or children confronted with similar situations, including CyberAngels, at www.cyberangels.org, and SafetyEd, at www.safetyed.org.