information about Internet safety at www.navegaprotegido.org.



Through Navega Protegido, Microsoft and the Ricky Martin Foundation seek to educate users on Internet safety, a topic whose importance is reflected in these alarming statistics:

-- Since 1988, images of child pornography on the Internet have increased 1500%



-- Out of four million children surfing the web, ages 7 to 17, 29% said they would give their home address freely,



--Officials estimate that nearly 50,000 sexual predators are online at any given moment.





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