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Learn about Internet Safety - A guide to your child's safe use of the Internet
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A List of Sites
Offering Tips
On Child
Internet Safety


See also,
Learn About
Your Privacy


Microsoft's Safekids Site
(Including Teacher's
Training Guide)


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Learn how RSAC and
Microsoft Internet
Explorer can help you
provide a good online
experience for your
child.

A guide to your child's safe use of the internet
Parents and Educators:

Thanks to the Internet, our children have unprecedented access to the world's knowledge base. From a computer in a school library or on a kitchen table, today's student literally can access information virtually anywhere with a few keystrokes and an inexpensive modem. Through e-mail and discussion groups, children share hobbies and learn about different cultures in online communities of children around the world.

We at Microsoft believe our children will adopt what we call a Web Lifestyle, in which the Internet and its resources are a foundation of their life. Whether planning a vacation, scheduling automobile repair or attending a college class, they will depend on the Internet as we rely today on the telephone.

Yet like most communities, the Internet has its perils. Many parents and teachers would never consider allowing children to wander unaccompanied through the streets of a major city, and nor should they permit children unsupervised access to the Internet.

Microsoft believes that parents and educators are the appropriate arbiters of a child's Internet experience. We want to help you decide how to help your child have a pleasant travel through the online world, and to let you know that we are actively supporting you.

We were an early advocate of online privacy rights, adopting a privacy policy that warns children to not give us any personal information without parents' permission.

We also have jointly sponsored non-partisan Internet sites where you can learn about the Internet, how to enjoy it safely, and how to ensure your children use it appropriately. Whether you are a parent or educator, America Links Up: A Kids Online Teach-In is an excellent resource.

We'd also like to share with you other educational resources for pleasant use of the Internet that are available in the online world. We've compiled a sampling of those sites, which we have divided by parent or educator categories. We've also included some sites your children might want to visit.

Please visit these sites, and if you find you need information that's missing, let us know. We want to be partners with you in ensuring your children adopt safe practices in use of this incredibly valuable medium.


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