Pandora’s Blog

Due to the holidays and closing out the year, this will be the last blog post of 2007. I wanted to leave everyone (anyone?) with a bunch of good links to check out … they are stories and blog posts from the last week.
Also, don’t forget to buy PC Pandora for your new family [...]

End of the year has our offices wrapping up business for 2007 and starting the plans for 2008. It also means vacation!
It’s been a great year and there is a lot of progress being made for online safety. Several pieces of legislation are pending and hundreds of predators have been nabbed (whether or not they [...]

The Megan Meiers case has been given a lot of attention lately because of the bizarre situation surrounding it. Well, this case, which I was unaware of, is just as divesting, but more straightforward. I am just finding out about this because the parents are suing the man responsible of their daughters death, in a [...]

I was saving this blog entry for a slow day… It’s a little old but worth pointing out.
In the opinion area of the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, Fatima Bawany, a middle school student, wrote a brilliant guest essay. Her piece, Spy on your kids online? Young cyberspace travelers do need parental guidance, looks at parental [...]

Well, if you haven’t been notified yet, Lori Drew, the mother who’s actions on MySpace resulted in the suicide of Megan Meier, will not be charged. Basically, there is no law that she could be prosecuted on. Apparently, there is no crime in taunting someone and emotionally destroying them to the point that they commit [...]

Yet another case of MySpace gone bad… but this one is intriguing.
First, the story is here, Detectives: Man met Lakeland teen through MySpace and sexually battered her, I suggest reading quickly. The gist is that this 39-year-old guy, Richard Gagnon Jr., met a 14-year-old girl through MySpace. They became friends and basically, he drove from [...]