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INTERNET SAFETY
October 2012
Content
What’s great about being online
Some online issues relevant to your child
What we do to protect your child
What you can do to protect your child
Where to find more help
What we want to achieve
“Helping to make the Internet
a great and safe place for
children”
Promoting
the positive
Responding to
the negative
The generation gap
PARENTS
YOUNG PEOPLE
Mostly email, web for
research, meet
friends in person for
coffee and a chat
Interactive chat, IM,
Music, Games, Blog,
social networking with
online ‘friends’
Communication
skills
Confidence
Skills
Research
Money
management
Computer
skills
Learning
Online?
Creativity
Most popular online activities for Form 1
Pupils
Chat rooms
Instant Messenger
Social Networking
Gaming
Web browsing
Music
Survey results 2012 –
Internet usage
44.5% use the Internet every day
3.2% use the Internet for more than 4 hours a
day
The most popular locations for Internet
access?
Home
90.6%
School
1.6%
Mobile phone
7.0%
Friend’s or family’s house
1.3%
Never use the Internet
0.0%
Survey results 2012 –
What room use Internet in?
Front room/sitting room/lounge
42.4%
Your bedroom
29.7%
Brother's/sister's bedroom
3.4%
Parent's bedroom
1.7%
Dining room
3.4%
Kitchen
4.2%
Study
15.3%
Survey results 2012 –
offline meetings
10 of the 128 children surveyed said that they have
met someone in the real world that they had only
known online
Over half of these children didn’t take anyone with
them
Over half of those who took someone took a friend
(the same age as themselves)
One said that they arranged to meet up with this
‘stranger’ at a party
Digital footprint
WHAT YOU SHARE
+
WHAT OTHERS SHARE ABOUT
YOU
=
YOU ONLINE
Issues with using the Internet
Content
Contact
Commerce
Inaccurate
information
Threatening
emails
Racist content
Strangers /
groomers
Pornography
Cyberbullying
Blur between
advertising &
content
Invasion of privacy
& SPAM
Gaming
Internet has facilitated revolution in gaming – social element
Many gaming sites allow you to play and communicate with users all over
the world
Gaming can be addictive
Keep gaming friends ‘in games’
Don’t share personal information
Ensure games are age appropriate – age doesn’t relate to skill level –
relates to content suitability
Set limits on how long and at what times children can play – some children
set alarm so that can get up and play with players in America, Australia, etc
CEOP
CEOP, Child Exploitation and Online Protection organisation,
provide information and training on the safe use of the
Internet. Throughout this presentation, some of the facts and
figures have been provided by CEOP
CEOP are a worldwide organisation
They have 400-600 reports made to them each month.
These include reports about unsolicited attention and
inappropriate online contact.
One case study – a 42 year old man pretending to be a 17
year old boy, grooming approx. 200 children over 18 month
period
Issues surrounding use of internet
Photographs
Cameras on phones in pocket
Quick and easy to send image
Once sent control is lost
In a survey of 1000 13-18 year olds by Plymouth
University in 2009
39%
sent explicit/provocative images of themselves
40% thought it was alright to send topless images
15% though it was alright to send nude images
Issues surrounding use of Internet
Sexting
Addiction
By sending indecent pictures of a person under 18 on to
someone else you could be breaking the law.
If a teenager were to have in their possession an indecent
image of another minor, they would technically be in
possession of an indecent image of a child, which is an
offence under the Protection of Children Act 1978 and the
Criminal Justice Act 1988.
Some children can become obsessed with using social networking sites
Loss of inhibitions
Some children will pretend to be something they are not –
more confidence online – can attract wrong type of
attention
Issues surrounding use of Internet
The Internet never forgets
Children share too much information
So that they can be found by potential friends
To seem popular
Know real information about people before meet
them and bring an adult
Children can share with too many people
What children should be aware of
Once content posted online it is difficult to remove, can be easily
searched and its global
Information online leaves a traceable ‘digital footprint’
Children should not share
their real name, home address, their phone number, …
Some offenders say they look to see if webcam image shows child in
bedroom – if it does then they can push the child further
Never post picture in school uniform or in front of your house
Some digital cameras and mobile phones have inbuilt GPS receiver
which provides location information attached to photographs
What children should be aware of
camchat/webcamchat
Easy to fake webcam feed – pre-record chat with other child
Easy to record webcam feed
Where could the video end up?
Webcams
Cover when not in use
Put down lid of laptop
Turn away from room towards wall
Can be remotely accessed
Facebook
In 2012 Facebook admitted that more than 83
million of their 955 million global users were
not real
This number was accounted for by:
Duplicate
profiles
A user having more than one account
User-misclassified
Business profiles, profiles for pets, etc
Undesirable
profiles
users
Set up to send spam messages or content to other
Facebook users
Unsuitable sites
E.g. Chatroulette
Ask.fm
Link you to complete strangers
Live video chat
Trial by CEOP middle of the day – 14% were
undesirable/inappropriate
Trialled with male in 20s – 19 out of 20 'nexted' to next
person
Trialled with young female – 9 out of 10 talked to her
Issues with anonymous postings
Users have freedom to write what they want
Formspring.me
Similar to Ask.fm
Report abuse
CEOP report abuse button
Available on many websites
Complete form with details of issue
Someone will contact you/your child from CEOP
The issue will be investigated
What do we do in MCB?
Logon ID and password to control access to our computer
system and personal files
Have web filtering to block undesirable material – categorised
as GREEN, AMBER and RED sites by C2K
At the end of the first term we have Internet Safety classes
with the Form 1s
Links to information and sites, for example, ‘thinkuknow’ from
Intranet
Very effective and approachable pastoral system and staff
What can you do?
Know what your child is doing online or
with mobile phones
Ask them to teach you about what they do
Help your child to understand that some
people lie online and that it’s better to keep
online friends online
www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents
What can you do?
Tell your children to block people they feel uncomfortable with
and to report them
Make sure children are aware that online actions can have
offline consequences
Don’t open messages from unknown people
Remind children that it’s never too late to tell someone if
something makes them feel uncomfortable
Check out filtering for your home Internet usage
Remind children that once photo shared they lose control of it
What can you do?
Keep computers in communal rooms – not in child’s bedroom
Be your child’s ‘friend’ on Facebook
Use your email address as the main contact address
Set rules – eg what details they can give out, no mobile phone
in the bedroom at night
Talk to your children about any experiences they have already
had on the Internet
Keep copies of any unsuitable messages, texts, etc received
Encourage children to use search engines specifically for
young people e.g. Yahoo kids
What can you do?
Talk to your children about any experiences they have had
already on the Internet
Keep copies of any unsuitable messages, texts, etc received
Encourage children to use search engines specifically for
young people e.g. Yahoo kids
Revisit settings on a regular basis
they can be changed by the site itself
Children can search online for ways to get round parental
controls
Realise content of Internet is not moderated
What can you do?
www.parentport.org.uk
Report any concerns
Sites can use eg google alerts, tweetbeep email you when there is twitter activity relating
to you chosen alert topic eg your child’s name
childnet.com
kidsmart.org.uk
ceop.gov.uk
thinkuknow.co.uk