While boys spend more than two and a half times as much time playing video games as girls, the gaming industry reports that 46% of players worldwide are female (Fnatic, 2022). And it turns out that the benefits to girls who game are worth talking about! Since girls are [...]
The dangers that can be found online are, for everyone, but especially for young people, daunting and something to be concerned enough about to revisit as an ongoing conversation within every family, again and again. The sad truth is that you will never run out of real-life news stories [...]
As our vast online worlds grow and continue to change, it’s important to remember to keep cyber safety and digital privacy front and center. Here our top six tips to keep your family protected throughout 2023! Tell your kids to keep their clothes on! If your child is old [...]
If you have been following our posts and guidance since we launched Savvy Cyber Kids as an educational 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in 2007, you know how we feel about parenting in a world filled with technology. If this is your first visit to our site, and one of our [...]
Identity theft is on the rise. According to the FTC, millions of Americans filed fraud reports last year. In 2021, people filed a total of 5.7 million reports. In addition to identity theft reports and complaints about businesses, 2.8 million of those reports were about fraud. Consumers reported losing [...]
We are excited to announce that starting November 1, 2022 and ending November 30, 2022 we will be running a 50/50 cash raffle where the Grand Prize winner will receive up to $50,000 cash! Our mission is to enable youth, families and school communities to be empowered by technology, recognizing that [...]
Recently, Savvy Cyber Kids had the opportunity to host a booth at the Crimes Against Children Conference, where I attended several sessions organized by the Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center. There were over 5,600 law enforcement officers and child care advocates that specialize in Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) in attendance. [...]
Fundraising has always been a challenge for non-profit organizations, especially small 501(c)(3) non-profits like Savvy Cyber Kids. Add the events of 2020 and 2021 on top of everything else and we needed a new way to fundraise that will help us to continue to develop new and updated learning materials [...]
For many employees, there is often the incorrect assumption that their actions online are entirely private. Many companies monitor their employee’s actions to ensure a positive corporate reputation is maintained, especially online reputation. No employer wants to have to exercise their public relations crisis management procedure in response to unintentional or [...]
Summary: The cellular technology that allows our mobile phones to track our location, stream our videos, and locate family and friends nearby, also allows us to be located. So, what’s actually happening with the devices we depend on every day? Your every move can be monetized. The evolution of the [...]
