subject: The Dangers Of Selling Kids' Information Online [print this page] Parents are warned of the possibility that their children may be giving information online that could make him or her, a target for dangerous people. Children unknowingly release so much information about themselves that they establish their own profiles.
The information gathered for marketing can also wind up in the hands of those who seek to inflict harm on children. While we all recognize this technology presents enormous opportunities for our kids, it also presents dangers that we've never needed to confront before, a house representative told about 60 people attending a conference on Internet safety.
There is a bill being supported by the representative of state that insists on companies getting the approval of parents before sending out the information. Also, companies are told to acknowledge who their source of information is and where it was dispensed.
While parents often provide the information knowingly in store surveys or restaurant birthday clubs, many don't realize these children may be providing more information than they should while online.
By gathering information from various sites, one can actually form the profile of a child. There is just something so incredible about a stranger having more knowledge about your child than you do, reveals a parent of two.
The fact that he was unaware of how his own personal information was taken made the congressman realize the need to educate the people on the bill. An active child advocate and mother of a murdered daughter is giving him her full support.
The suspect was caught and convicted. A panel will decide if he should be put to death. A list of kids' names, ages, and addresses were sold by a marketing company for $277.
Apparently, there are some who don't agree with community notification programs and sex offender registry.
We can't find out who the offenders are, but the offenders can access their prey, he told the audience. He is unable to make sense of it all. According to the marketing industry, there are enough voluntary safeguards.
They are insisting on seeing the victims' bodies, but the victim's father argues that he can't show them any and that dead kids' are unable to testify. Those at the conference tackled on the elements found on the Internet that would pose as a threat to a child's safety.
by: Jack Tench
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