Protecting Our Kids’ Privacy in a Digital World is a Common Sense Media White Paper that lays out principles for a new public policy agenda to protect the privacy of children and teens online.

Common Sense Media and Zogby International’s 2010 poll of adults and teens about online privacy found that 85% of parents say they are more concerned about online privacy than they were five years ago, while 75% of parents think social networking sites don’t do a good job of protecting children’s online privacy.

The Common Sense Media White Paper Do Smart Phones = Smart Kids? explores the impact mobile technology is having on America’s kids, families, and schools.

Digital Literacy and Citizenship in the 21st Century is a Common Sense Media White Paper outlining strategies for educating, empowering, and protecting America’s kids in the 24/7 media world.

The January 2009 Common Sense Media report, Broadcast Dysfunction: Sex, Violence, Alcohol and the NFL, found that one out of every six commercials shown during Sunday pro football broadcasts contained messages and images that were inappropriate for young kids.

In December 2008, Common Sense Media and the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health released The Impact of Media on Child and Adolescent Health.This meta-analysis reviewed 173 quantitative studies, and found that in 80% of the studies, greater exposure to media was associated with negative health outcomes for children and adolescents.