Thirty-one percent of teens claim to have been bullied online, according to a survey released by Cox Communications and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children Tuesday, said a Cox press release (http://bit.ly/1bMFMgK). Forty-one percent of those bullied told an adult, said the survey. The report also said that photos account for 73 percent of shared or “potentially inappropriate” content by teens, it said. Phone numbers and “curse words” are each 21 percent of shared or “potentially inappropriate” content by teens, while physical location is 19 percent, it said. Teens spend almost six hours per day online, and 83 percent access a social media site daily, it said. Eighty-four percent of parents of teens have talked to their kids about online safety, with 77 percent in the last year, it said. A total of 1,329 online interviews were done with teens ages 13-17 by U.S. Tru, the youth research arm of the international consultant The Futures Co., said a Cox spokeswoman.

Websites, privacy advocates and tech companies participated Tuesday in a “day of activism in opposition to” the NSA’s “mass spying regime,” according to an event release (http://bit.ly/1iIWEdk). To coincide with “The Day We Fight Back,” Google Vice President-Public Policy Susan Molinari released a blog post calling for changes to government surveillance laws (http://bit.ly/1bJfCLT). Google urged Congress to pass the USA Freedom Act, which would put an end to the government’s bulk collection of telephone metadata. “But there’s more that can be done as we consider appropriate reforms to government surveillance laws,” Molinari said. “Congress should update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to require governmental entities to obtain a warrant before they can compel online companies to disclose the content of users’ communications.” Molinari pointed to Senate legislation from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and committee member Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and House legislation from Reps. Tom Graves, R-Ga., and Jared Polis, D-Colo., that would accomplish this goal. The Center for Democracy & Technology backed similar reforms in a Tuesday blog post from CDT Fellow on Privacy, Surveillance and Security Jake Laperruque (http://bit.ly/1fe9e00). CDT also urged opposition to the FISA Improvements Act, sponsored by Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., which would “codify existing surveillance practices into law,” Laperruque said.

Safer Internet Day 2014 should be a “wake-up call for parents,” said EU Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes Tuesday. The day was marked in more than 100 countries, including the U.S. for the first time, said the European Commission. Kroes said parents need to know what their children are doing online. “That’s not the EU’s job or a government’s job, it’s your job, and there are lots of websites and organisations to help,” said her written remarks. Children must be encouraged to create a better online world for themselves and stand up to cyberbullies, Kroes said. The European Telecommunications Network Operator’s Association said it established an internal child protection task force to boost the safety of communications services for children. ETNO’s approach to online safety is: Educating children, teens and teachers on how to get the most out of the Internet while keeping safe, offering services specially designed for youngsters, including security features on Internet, mobile and IPTV services, and facilitating cooperation among members and with public institutions to promote best practices. Liberty Global and European Schoolnet (EUN) said they're helping schools with e-safety challenges called eSafety Label and the Web We Want. The former, developed by EUN, Liberty Global, Microsoft, Telefonica and three European education ministries, is a pan-Europe online safety support and accreditation standard for schools, Liberty Global said. The Web We Want, developed by EUN in cooperation with Liberty Global, Google and a team of young people, is an educational handbook that helps teens and teachers make informed online decisions. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., touted the importance of broadband Tuesday as part of a Safer Internet Day event. It’s “critical now more than ever that our schools keep up with advancing technology,” Schumer said of E-rate revamps. Broadband is the “closest thing we have to a silver bullet” when it comes to expanding healthcare, revamping education and growing the economy, Schumer said. “Federal investment is required.” He pointed favorably to the FCC Connect America Fund and the National Broadband Plan.

The Internet Association warned of “threats to Internet freedom” in the form of “governments seeking to regulate the Internet or gatekeepers desiring to control access to the Internet,” an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1faq93C). In a meeting Wednesday with FCC Acting General Counsel Jonathan Sallet, the association said Verizon’s recent challenge to the FCC’s net neutrality rules “underscores” its point. “The Internet Association supports enforceable rules that preclude Internet access providers from using their gatekeeper positions to block or degrade access to content,” it said. “Transparency rules” should require ISPs to provide information on their network management practices, it said. Though many sections of the FCC’s net neutrality rules were overturned, the transparency rules were upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Also last week, Dish Network spoke with agency officials about the “possible need for rules applicable to broadband access providers who choose to hold themselves out as common carriers or in fact do so,” an ex parte filing said (http://bit.ly/1faqu6q). “These rules can complement any rules that the Commission may consider promulgating under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act ... for broadband access providers that do not in fact hold themselves out as common carriers,” Dish said.

The FCC and Chairman Tom Wheeler need to do nothing immediately in the wake of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s Jan. 14 decision rejecting the agency’s 2010 net neutrality rules, said Institute for Policy Innovation President Tom Giovanetti Thursday in a blog post. “Putting innovation at risk should be reason enough to stay the FCC’s hand, but there’s a more basic reason why the FCC should forebear from setting network neutrality policy for the nation: The FCC was never charged with setting broad policy goals -- those come from Congress in the form of legislation, and there is no network neutrality directive from Congress,” Giovanetti said (http://bit.ly/NagG6e). “The FCC was designed to be an administrative and technical agency that manages public spectrum and distributes licenses. It was never intended to specialize in consumer protection."

Twitter Q4 revenue more than doubled to $243 million, from the year-ago quarter, said the company in a news release Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1fIpRoe). The net loss for Q4 was $511 million, compared to a $8.7 million loss in Q4 of 2012, it said. Monthly active users averaged 241 million, a 30 percent increase. Advertising revenue per thousand “timeline” views was $1.49 in Q4, a 76 percent increase, said the company. The stock closed down 24 percent to $50.03 Thursday.

Yelp joined the Internet Association, said an IA news release Thursday (http://bit.ly/1dsYOZb). Yelp’s “advocating for issues like anti-SLAPP and protecting free speech online” will contribute to the group’s mission, said Michael Beckerman, IA president, referring to strategic lawsuits against public participation. Yelp hired Laurent Crenshaw, former legislative director for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., as its first lobbyist in the fall and filed a statement of PAC organization with the Federal Election Commission in December.

Amazon Studios announced Thursday 10 new pilot shows available on Prime Instant Video in the U.S. and LOVEFiLM in the U.K. Amazon will use viewer feedback as one factor in deciding which series move on to full-season production for exclusive viewing by Amazon Prime members, it said. Drama pilots include hourlong shows from creators Chris Carter (The X-Files), Eric Overmyer (The Wire, Treme) and Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch). Half-hour comedy pilots were created by writer and producer Roman Coppola (Moonrise Kingdom), actor and musician Jason Schwartzman (Saving Mr. Banks), writer and director Alex Timbers, filmmaker Paul Weitz, writer Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under) and executive producers Ice Cube and Michael Strahan, Amazon said. Kids shows on the pilot list come from creators Duane Capizzi (Transformers Prime), Josh Selig (Wonder Pets), Angela Santomero (Blue’s Clues), Arland DiGirolamo (Sketchy) and Geoff Barbanell (Kickin’ It), it said. With previous pilots, Amazon customers submitted “thousands” of reviews within the first few days of launch, and more than 80 percent of reviews received 4 and 5 stars, said Roy Price, director-Amazon Studios.

Standard operational procedures (SOPs) for managing multinational cybercrises were finalized by European Union and European Free Trade Association countries, working with the European Network and Information Security Agency, ENISA said Wednesday. The SOPs give guidance on how to deal with major cyberincidents that could escalate into crises, it said. In particular, they stress that successful management of such incidents requires direct links to decisionmakers and political leaders, it said. The SOPs help increase understanding of the causes and impacts of multinational cyberevents and speed mitigation efforts, ENISA said. The combination of contact points, guidelines, workflows, templates, tools and good practices will give crisis managers the ability to use internationally shared technical and non-technical information to come up with integrated operational pictures and effective action plans, it said. The SOPs are a “handbook for predefined, commonly agreed upon and exercised operational contacts, procedures and processes,” said ENISA Executive Director Udo Helmbrecht.

Sunday’s Denver-Seattle Super Bowl match wasn’t just the most watched linear TV show (CD Feb 4 p17), said the owner of the broadcast network that aired it. It also was the U.S.’s most-viewed live stream of a single sports event, with the 528,000 average viewers a minute spending an average of 47.8 minutes watching online, said 21st Century Fox’s Fox Sports. The peak audience was 1.1 million concurrent users, at 9:11 p.m. Eastern, during the third quarter, said the company in a news release Monday (http://foxs.pt/1enQXSR).