On Tuesday, July 9, 2019, Chris McKenna, the founder and CEO of Protect Young Eyes, was invited as one of five witnesses to a Senate Judiciary Hearing titled, “Protecting Innocence in a Digital World.” This work is an extension of the #FixAppRatings Campaign that started in …
My Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee – “Protecting Innocence in a Digital World” Read More
What are Snapchat Filters? A Complete Guide for Parents. Does your kid have Snapchat? Great. Time for a lesson on Snapchat filters. If not, does your kid have friends who have Snapchat? Great. Your kid is impacted by them, too. Still time for a lesson. Snapchat …
A Complete Guide to Snapchat Filters – Shark Face, Porn Stars, & Beer Ads Read More
What is cyber flashing? Australian online safety experts are warning parents about a rise in new digital phenomenon known as “cyber flashing”, where explicit and abusive images are anonymously sent to strangers (or friends) through iPhones using its AirDrop feature. AirDrop is one of many iPhone …
My Kid Received Unsolicited Porn. What is Cyber flashing? Read More
Pedophiles trade Child Porn through Dropbox Links on Instagram The Atlantic first reported that teenagers stumbled upon a network of Instagram accounts that were sharing Dropbox links of child porn (Atlantic article). The way it worked is that pedophiles were using certain hashtags on images …
No Accountability for Big Tech = Big Problem When I take my kids to the movies, we depend on the MPAA rating system to tell my family what to expect. When listening to music, inappropriate content is tagged as having “explicit content.” Video game retailers refuse …
It’s Time to Fix App Ratings. It’s Time to Start Caring for Kids. Read More
Is Apex Legends Safe? Apex Legends has taken the gaming world by storm! It was released February 4, 2019 by Respawn Entertainment. In one week, there were over 25 million registered users! We don’t usually write about desktop games, but Apex is so huge, which means …
Summary: No one is holding technology companies accountable for the impacts that their technology is having on the hearts and minds of young people. In the wake of a global outcry over the suicide of a teen girl, the UK’s Parliament has proposed that social media …
It’s Time for Social Media Duty of Care. #fixappratings Read More
**WARNING – the stories, words, and images included in this post are extremely graphic. But every child who has Instagram has instant access to photos like these. With zero parental controls. “Instagram helped kill my daughter.” Molly Russell, 14, took her own life in 2017 after …
What is Suicide Porn? Instagram Blamed in Young Teen’s Death. Read More
[Warning – this blog post has some R-rated content. The Snapchat Discover section is always on and easily accessible. We simply want parents to be aware of what we found in the Brother channel.] Protect Young Eyes has been very vocal about Snapchat. We exposed the …
A Kansas City hospital has seen a horrifying increase in peer-on-peer sexual abuse among children and they have a theory on what is causing it. “Last year, Children’s Mercy saw 444 kids who were sexually abused within the last five days (of arriving at the hospital). …