Privacy Advocates Launch "Net Safety Tips" App With Support from Google, Verizon

Feel like you need an app just to protect yourself from your other apps? Yes, now, in today's crowded marketplace, there's an app, even for that. Introducing the "Net Safety Tips On The Go" (Net Safety Tips OTG) app, the first-ever digital safety and security advice app, as brought to you by the Internet Education Foundation (IEF). Now that you know there's an app for that, what can it do for you?

Feel like you need an app just to protect yourself from your other apps? Yes, now, in today’s crowded marketplace, there’s an app, even for that. Introducing the “Net Safety Tips On The Go” (Net Safety Tips OTG) app, the first-ever digital safety and security advice app, as brought to you by the Internet Education Foundation (IEF). Now that you know there’s an app for that, what can it do for you?

The app, developed with support from Google and Verizon, delivers advice in the form of one tip at a time to help users use the Internet and their smartphones safely, according to the IEF.

“Everything is going mobile, and now we have put crucial online safety and security education in the hands of anyone with an Android phone or tablet,” said Tim Lordan, IEF Executive Director.

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