Discovery Education Launches First Cybersecurity Initiative

By John Eggerton
( Broadcasting & Cable )
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Intel (McAfee) and Discovery Communications subsidiary Discovery Education are launching a new online safety campaign aimed at kids.    

The three-year Intel Security Digital Safety Program is a national effort to teach kids to "think before you link" as well as after (making safer choices once they have gone online).    

It is Discovery Education's first cybersecurity initiative, and comes as stories about hacking and online bullying and sexting are much in the news. Discovery Education supplies digital educational content including interactive digital textbooks. 

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John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.