EAST GREENBUSH, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) — Parents and children navigating the constant stream of online content now have access to a how-to guide to help better facilitate conversations. A local internet security expert enlisted the help of his teenage daughter to write a guide about online safety and security.
The father-daughter duo, Sean and Emma Atkinson, penned and published the parental guide to protect children online.
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“It dawned on me that maybe I’m not the only parent to have this conversation,” said Sean.
Even with 20 years of experience on how to secure data and IT systems and being the chief information security officer at the Center for Internet Security, Sean wanted another voice. “Being 15, all my friends are on social media ,” his daughter Emma said. “I see a lot of my friends talking to people that they don’t know online. That really scares me, to be honest.”…