Yahoo’s Emily Hancock Honored by FOSI for Making the Internet Safer

Posted November 18th, 2009 at 4:46 pm by Lucas Mast, Blog Editor

 4 Comments / Filed in: online safety

Yahoo! has long been an industry leader on child safety. In fact, we have made it a company priority to protect children online by creating tools for users to safeguard themselves and by supporting efforts to educate children, parents, and communities about safe online experiences.

That is why we were thrilled that Emily Hancock, Yahoo! Senior Legal Director was recently able to accept an award from the Family Online Safety Institute for her work on behalf of Yahoo! to make the internet safer for everyone.

The Family Online Safety Institute Award for Outstanding Achievement (“FOSI Award”) was awarded to individuals who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to advancing the goal of a safer Internet. We could not be prouder to have Emily accept this award. Emily cares very passionately about helping to protect children and she takes a very proactive approach within Yahoo! helping to make changes to products, services, policies and tools whenever possible to achieve that end.  She has been instrumental in the ongoing development and improvement of Yahoo!’s technology for identifying, removing and reporting child pornography.

The award came as Yahoo sponsored the third annual Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) online safety conference, Building a Culture of Responsibility: From Online Safety to Digital Citizenship on November 4th and 5th in Washington, DC. Bringing together leaders from government, industry, education and nonprofits, the conference focused on determining how to best encourage responsible use on the Internet. The conference convened key players from the global Internet community to promote cyber citizenship and coordinate efforts to connect the next billion consumers safely and responsibly.

Yahoo!’s Director of Child Safety and Product Policy, Catherine Teitelbaum also played a major role in the conference, appearing on a panel aimed at “Getting Kids Hooked On Safety When They are Young.”  Catherine spoke of her extended tenure at Yahoo!, working to create a safer online environment for kids and teens, and how the work of keeping kids safe has evolved with time. Her dedication to this issue is just another example of how Yahoo! that serves so many different audiences can also make child safety a priority and successfully integrate child safety features into our broad product offerings.

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4 Comments Add your own

Ian | November 19th, 2009 at 12:18 am

Hello,

I think that I have a good idea for Yahoo For Good. I made a powerpoint with my idea, and I would like to send it to someone at Yahoo.

The idea involves using an interactive online map with dynamic information as a central platform for international aid agencies who are searching for program funding. Donors would be able to donate through the site and also get a better experience in their donations because of interactive nature of the site.

Also, because the site’s information would change every day, people would be attracted to return to the site daily to track the progress.

Anyways, I would like to get my idea to the people at yahoo but I don’t know where to send it.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Ian McIlwaine

LeGrand Woolley | November 19th, 2009 at 3:33 pm

As the market leader in Internet filtering, Net Nanny understands and is pleased to acknowledge the strides Yahoo and FOSI have made in preventing undesireable content from reaching our children. Thought leadership and dedication like this pave the way in making the Internet a clean and informative environment for the entire family.

Roua | November 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 pm

safe online experiences.

mike wichman | November 23rd, 2009 at 11:00 am

I used to go to your site eveyday and catch up on current events. Then someone changed the site. I do not like the changes at all. If my opinion counts. I liked the old home site much better.