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Most Parents Sit Down with Teens About Online Privacy

According to a poll conducted by Common Sense Media and Survey Monkey, 88 percent of parents interviewed have spoken to their teenagers about online privacy in 2018. Only about 10 percent of parents had not talked to their teens about online privacy.

In recent years, the life of teenagers on the internet has come under increasing public scrutiny, after First Lady Melania Trump took on cyberbullying as her project while in the White House.

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This chart shows the share of parents in the U.S. who have spoken to their teenagers about online privacy in 2018.

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