Transcript Family Privacy in an Internet World

Annette Burns, Attorney
Edith A. Croxen, Attorney
AFCC Regional Training Conference
Reno, Nevada November, 2009
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The internet is now a “Cloud”
The internet cloud is “a collection of utilities built on internet
technologies for on-demand services”
Also known as SaaS or Software as a Service
Sample Clouds: Amazon Web Services
Google Apps
Force.com
Microsoft Windows Azure
Salesforce.com
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It has physical locations.
In the U.S.: Miami, Florida - NAP of the
Americas
Columbia River Valley – Google,
Microsoft, Yahoo and Amazon
Microsoft facility alone is 469,000 square feet which could
house seven Boeing 747s and is cooled by the Columbia River
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Security Issues
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Searching Issues
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Control Issues
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THE INTERNET IS NOT SECURE!!!
Identity theft – five times more likely by
stolen wallet than high tech hacking
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But, exposure of personal emails and
information can only be done on the internet
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Security services recommend consumers
learn password protection rules
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ISPs and Secondary ISPs
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Passwords need to be different for each
utility
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Use a combination of letters and
numbers or symbols from the keyboard
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Do not store on computer
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Choose false questions and false answers
or make up obscure security questions.
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Define how you want to use the internet,
personally and professionally
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Take a few hours to find the best search engines
for your needs
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Search engines are not content-driven sites; they
are search-only sites
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A good search engine does your work for you
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There are search engines to find search engines:
Dogpile.com; hotbot.com
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Legal Search Engines and Portals
FindLaw’s Law Crawler (http://lawcrawler.lp.findlaw.com)
This site is programmed to search only sites that contain legal
information.
Legal Portals and Directories
The difference between portals and search engines is that the
portals are human constructed and monitored.
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Legal portals and directories are usually sponsored by one of five different groups:
1. Commercial entities 2. Law firms 3. Governments 4. Academic Institutions
5. Associations
“A high quality, useful legal portal or directory should: (1) be reliable by being
credible, up-to-date and objective; (2) include a subject directory and preferably a
jurisidictional directory; (3) link directly to many relevant sites; and (4) be user
friendly (intuitive).” Levitt and Rosch, The Cybersleuth’s Guide to the Internet
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Legal Portals:
Hieros Gamos (HG)
http://www.hg.org
Nolo Press
http://www.nolo.com
RSS Feed – electronic update services that allows
blog to automatically deliver information
continuously to desktop
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Parental Controls
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Keeping your computer clean
Delete Cookies
Delete Files
Delete History
Clean Disk
Defragment
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President Obama’s facebook/myspace
www.heariam.tv?s=75989
Federal Trade Commission – 2008 Proposed
Rules of Net Behavioral Advertising
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
CFAA – Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
TeleCrunch.com A site which publishes hacker
materials
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Parental Controls of Home Computers.
Both parents will use parental controls on all
computers which are accessible to the minor
children. In the event an adult’s computer does
not have parental controls, it shall be password
protected with a secure password unknown to
the child. The parental controls shall include
content and user time limitations. Parents shall
only use secure sites to download children’s
games and shall review the content prior to
allowing the child to participate in any internet
game.
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Minor’s participation in Facebook/My
Space/Twitter and other interactive social
networking internet activities.
The minor may participate in obtaining
these accounts (upon agreement by both
parties) but (each) parent will have the
minor’s password for any of these accounts
and shall be able to completely monitor,
and, if necessary, shut down the account.
All accounts regarding the minor shall be
private accounts and shall not be open to
public use. The parents will monitor
periodically to determine whether the child’s
“friends” are appropriate and shall block and
“friend” which the parent deems in
appropriate.
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Use of photographs of children on the
internet.
In the event either parent desires to
post photographs of the children on a
social networking or other internet site,
that parent will maintain the privacy of
the site by blocking unknown persons
and will block “friends of friends.”
Additionally, any photograph of the child
shall be appropriate for age and content
and shall not include any nudity or
partial nudity. The parent will take any
other necessary security precautions as
may be required from time to time.
Telephone for minor.
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A telephone for the minor child shall not
be provided by either parent prior to the
child’s tenth birthday. Any telephone
provided for the child from age 10 until
age 12 shall be restricted to the
telephone numbers the parent(s) elect
and shall include 911.
After age 12, the minor’s phone may be
unrestricted (upon agreement of the
parties ) and the parent providing the
telephone shall allow unrestricted text
messaging. In the event the minor
requests a Twitter account, the parents
shall strictly monitor said account for
content appropriateness
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Inappropriate Internet Activities.
The minor child shall not be exposed to
any pornography in either parent’s home
or in any situation in which the parent is
aware that the minor may be exposed to
pornography. This includes the use of
avatars to enter internet virtual worlds
such as Second Life or others which may
from time to time exist.
The parents will monitor any virtual
interactive games the child may be
involved in for appropriate content and
activity. If the parent cannot or does not
do so, the site will be removed from the
minor’s participation by an appropriate
computer parental control.
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Notification to each parent. Each
parent will notify the other at any
time there is a change to the minor’s
accounts, internet activities or other
significant event regarding the
minor’s privacy or potential invasion
thereof.
Parents will take reasonable
precautions that a parent’s
significant other or spouse is made
aware of these family privacy orders
and shall monitor the use of the
minor’s privacy information
(including photographs) by the
parent’s significant other or spouse.
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New Issues. The parents will
maintain communication about
any new developments on the
internet or internet related devices
which may negatively impact the
minor and will cooperate with each
other to address any such issues.