<p>While writing her book, Dragnet Nation, Julia Angwin learned about various strategies to protect her children's privacy. Here, she distills the lessons from her privacy experiments into tips for parents.</p><p>If you search for my kids online, you'll find barely a trace of them. Not only do I not post any information or photos of them, I have also taught them to erase their own digital footprints.</p><p>My children, whom I will call Woody and Harriet, are six and nine. They use fake names online always. They use software to block online tracking, and instead of Googling homework assignments, they use a search engine that doesn't store any data about their queries. They have stickers that cover their computer cameras. Harriet, my older child, uses an encryption program to scramble her calls and texts to my cellphone, using passwords that are 20 characters long.</p><p>Why go to such extremes at such a young age? Because if I don't do anything to help my children learn to protect themselves, all their data will be swept up into giant databases, and their identity will be forever shaped by that information.</p><p><a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/13/how-to-protect-your-kids-privacy-online/">Keep reading...</a></p>