e-SafetySafe use of the Internet & technologies

Objectives of this presentationRaise awareness about:

a) The nature of the risks

b) How you can help children remain safe

• Spot the risk!

• Make a safe choice!

What can you do ?

• Help your child identify the risks and adopt safer behaviours.

• In the same way as you do with: water, electricity, roads, railways, etc

What can you do ?

Nature of the risks

Do you know what your children are doing online ?

DoYouKnow?

Developed by the EUKids Online project: Hasenbrink, Livingstone, Haddon, Kirwil and Ponte, 2007

Nature of the risks

• Would you let your children watch TV late at night?

• Would you let your children watch films rated 18?

Why not?

Content of Games

Taking Drugs

Sexism

Guns

Violence

Killing

War Theft

Murder

Torture

Prostitution

Zombies

MonstersSwearing Racis

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Content of Games

Knifing

BAD STUFF

Rape

Content of GamesPEGI labels appear on front & back of the packaging.

They provide a reliable indication of the suitability of the game contents.

PEGI 18The adult classification is applied when the level of violence reaches a stage where it becomes a depiction of gross violence and/or includes elements of specific types of violence. Gross violence is the most difficult to define since it can be very subjective in many cases, but in general terms it can be classed as the depictions of violence that would make the viewer feel a sense of revulsion.

PEGI 16This rating is applied once the depiction of violence and / or sexual activity reaches a stage that looks the same as would be expected in real life. More extreme bad language, the concept of the use of tobacco and drugs and the depiction of criminal activities can be content of games that are rated 16.

Content of Games

Developed by the EUKids Online project: Hasenbrink, Livingstone, Haddon, Kirwil and Ponte, 2007

Nature of the risks

BAD STUFF

Suffered in silence

Suffered in silence

• Do not suffer in silence• Don’t reply / respond• BLOCK• KEEP the evidence• TELL someone• REPORT it• GET HELP!!

What should victims do?

Developed by the EUKids Online project: Hasenbrink, Livingstone, Haddon, Kirwil and Ponte, 2007

Nature of the risks

Social Networking

• Adopt identity of a young person / Build trust• Conversations of sexual nature / flirting• View / Share sexual images / video• Gathering information: hobbies, locations /

movements, email, phone, • Suggest to meet / go to a place• Threats to extort more extreme material (or worse)

Online predators start as friends and then gain influence & control. :

Online Grooming Behaviour

BAD STUFF

• Pretended he was a young person.

• Chatted to young children over long periods of time (sometimes years!)

• Gained their trust and arranged to meet children as young as 11.

• Real name• Home Address • Email address• Phone numbers• Location• Photos / Video / Webcam• Places frequented: School (photo of uniform)

• Friends’ details

What’s the problem?

Becky / Consequences? (TIME?)

Risks of Location Services

What’s wrong with putting this photo online?

• Target for street robbery• Share location unwittingly• Take & share photos / videos of self

What’s the risk?

• Take images / video on a Smartphone

• Sent to friend• Shared on Internet• Stolen from social network

sites

No control over images

ALL images / video can be captured (Webcam / Skype)

• Risk cannot be totally eradicated• “As safe as possible, for as many as possible,

for as much of the time as possible”• We don’t want to stop children from using

the internet; we want them to know the risks and make safe choices.

The nature of online risks?

Guidance for Parents

ChildNet ~ “Know it All”

Thinkuknow.co.uk

G = Ground rules What is OK / not OKWhat information should kept private

O = Online Safety Keep Antivirus & Spyware software up to dateOther security protection

L = LocationKeep computer in a busy areaNot in the bedroom

D = Dialogue Talk with your children Learn from each other

GOLDEN RULES

GOLD

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Good LuckAny Questions