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The FCC needs to take concrete steps to bolster online safety education before expanding broadband access to the 93 million Americans who currently lack it, said Linda Criddle, president of Safe Internet Alliance (SIA). While the FCC prepares to submit…
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its National Broadband Plan to Congress March 17, Criddle said “the offline population is on average poorer and less educated than the online majority.” According to a new Financial Times/Harris Poll, 81 percent of Americans are concerned about their personal online data being accessed by cybercriminals, 62 percent say social sites like Facebook make many people vulnerable to cyberattacks and 61 percent question the security of personal online data accessed by search engines. SIA urged the FCC to address these anxieties and ISPs to provide site-specific, easily discoverable safety information in Spanish as well as English.