Re: [LM_NET] Incredible "teachable moment" Illinois legislation

[Barbara Braxton <barbara.288@BIGPOND.COM>]

Nancy wrote
<<Make sure they focus on the things parents and teens can do to make sure they are 
safe online -
because they will find, like the Berman Task Force found, that age and identity 
verification will
not accomplish this >>

As part of the discussions about Facebook, it was suggested that under-teens could 
use
http://www.imbee.com.  All memberships have to have parent approval, and all adult 
memberships are
'validated' by credit card verification or a phone a/c.   

One of my colleagues here has signed up and, being unwilling to share his credit 
card details with
unknowns, he submitted his phone details.  But, as he said, if they just do an 
online check, all
they will find is a phone a/c registered in that name and even if they ring, they 
have no real
verification he is who he says he is.

While we can appreciate the efforts made by this company and others to keep kids 
safe, I'm not quite
sure how they can prove their members are who they say they are.

There is Super Clubs in the UK and Australia who seem to go that bit further ...
http://www.superclubsplus.com/i/validate so maybe someone in the US will set that 
up for your
children.
Barbara

Barbara Braxton
Teacher Librarian
COOMA NSW 2630
AUSTRALIA

E. barbara.288@bigpond.com
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