Parry Aftab is a US lawyer, child advocate and expert in all aspects of consumer and family cybersafety issues. She is also a risk-management and best practices consultant and advisor to the leaders of the Internet and digital technology industries.

Parry authored the first Internet safety book in the world, A Parents Guide to the Internet. She has been featured in Biography Magazine, in Chris Hansen's book, To Catch a Predator (named after his award-winning Dateline series of the same name.) Parry is a leader worldwide in cybersafety and privacy and is in demand as a keynote speaker on these and Internet best practices. And Dr. Aftab's CMP Privacy Lawyer column received the coveted American Society of Business Publication Editors Gold Award in 2004 for her article on the Patriot Act and corporate confidentiality.

The US Congress formally honored her work in cybersafety in 2005; the help group she formed received the President’s Service Award from the Clinton White House and in 1999 UNESCO appointed her to head up its online child protection project for the United States. Parry was named to the Harvard Berkman Center-administered Internet Safety Technical Task Force (the ISTTF) in 2008 created to advise the Attorneys General from 49 states on cybersafety issues.

In 2009 she was appointed to the National Telecommunications Information Agency’s Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG) created by act of Congress to advise the FTC, FCC and Congress on cybersafety issues. Parry was a 2010 recipient of the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award, and in 2011 she received the RCMP Child Recovery Award. Dr. Aftab also runs an Internet safety and help group as an unpaid volunteer.