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KYW News Radio - November 18, 2010
Posted Nov 18, 2010 -- webcomm
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This holiday season parents have a new concern — websites trying to lure children with promises of an expensive game in exchange for personal information. According to Abbe Forman, assistant professor of computer science at Temple, now is the time to review a list of approved websites with your children and to double check your protective software. "You click on something that an advertiser that puts up there. They can drop something called a web bug onto your computer, which will track where you go and it will report back to them."