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Posted by Elliot Schrage, Vice
President of Global Communications and Public Affairs

Over the years, we've built tools and offered resources to help
kids and families stay safe online. Our href="http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=preferences&hl=en"
>SafeSearch feature, for
example, helps filter explicit content from search results.

We've also been involved in a variety of local initiatives to
educate families about how to stay safe while surfing the web. Here
are a few highlights:

• In the U.S., we've worked with href="http://www.commonsensemedia.org/"
  >Common Sense Media to promote awareness about
  online safety and have donated hardware and software to improve the
  ability of the >National Center for Missing and
  Exploited Children to combat child exploitation.
  • Google UK has collaborated with child safety
    organizations such as href="http://youtube.com/user/Beatbullying"
    >Beatbullying and href="http://www.childnet.com/kia"
    >Childnet to raise awareness about cyberbullying
    and share prevention messages, and with law enforcement
    authorities, including the href="http://www.ceop.gov.uk/"

    >Child Exploitation and Online Protection
    Centre, to fight online exploitation.

    • Google India initiated "Be NetSmart," an
      Internet safety campaign created in cooperation with local law
      enforcement authorities that aims to educate students, parents, and
      teachers across the country about the great value the Internet can
      bring to their lives, while also teaching best practices for safe
      surfing.
      • Google France launched child safety education
        initiatives including href="http://www.tousconnectes.com/"
        >Tour de France
        des Collèges and >Cherche Net that are
        designed to teach kids how to use the Internet responsibly.
        • And Google Germany worked with the national
          government, industry representatives, and a number of local
          organizations recently to launch a href="http://www.fragfinn.de/"
          >search engine for children.

          As part of these ongoing efforts to provide online safety resources
          for parents and kids, we've created

          href="http://www.google.com/familysafety" >Tips for
          Online Safety, a site designed to help families find quick
          links to safety tools like SafeSearch, as well as new resources,
          like a video offering online safety pointers that we've
          developed in partnership with Common Sense Media. In the href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=kUyQI0USNSY"
          id="d.sk" >video, Anne Zehren, president of Common Sense, offers
          easy-to-implement tips, like how to set privacy and sharing
          controls on social networking sites and the importance of having
          reasonable rules for Internet use at home with appropriate levels
          of supervision.

          Users can also download our new href="http://services.google.com/blog_resources/google_family_safety_guide.pdf" >
          Online Family Safety Guide (PDF), which includes useful Internet
          Safety pointers for parents, or check out a quick

          href="http://kids.getnetwise.org/tools/searchsafe/google-search"
          >tutorial on SafeSearch created by one of our
          partner organizations, GetNetWise.

          We all have roles to play in keeping kids safe online. Parents need
          to be involved with their kids' online lives and teach them how
          to make smart decisions. And Internet companies like Google need to
          continue to empower parents and kids with tools and resources that
          help put them in control of their online experiences and make web
          surfing safer.

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