Cyber Education and Safety

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Cyber Education and Safety

• Presentation to Conference on Cyber Savvy
  Building Confidence in the Internet

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Outline of Presentation

• Scope of the issues
• Governments policy approach
• Education/awareness/help
• Law enforcement
• International co-operation
• Filtering

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Scoping the Issues

• 90 of families have internet connection
• 96 say internet is beneficial to children
• 8-17 year olds spend 1.25 hrs daily online
• 20 have a computer in the bedroom
• 70 of girls 14-17 have a profile on a social
  networking site
• Rising of children will be using the internet
  on mobile phones

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Parents Views

• Internet more a concern than TV
• Loss of control
• No knowledge of who chatting with
• Can be addictive
• Dont understand the technology
• Easy to find unsuitable sites
• No time to supervise

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What are the problems cyber-safety policies
target?

• Contact with strangers following contact on the
  internet
• Harmful effects of pornography, particularly
  child pornography and pornography involving
  violence
• Bullying

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Governments policy approach

• Evidence based
• Quality research
• Monitoring international experience/practice
• Trial and test options
• Consultative
• Youth advisory group
• Consultative working group
• Commitment to working with industry and community
  groups

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Education/Awareness/help

• Children
• Age-specific
• Avoid uncool
• Parents
• Empowerment
• Highlight dos and donts
• Teachers
• Sharing best practice

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Law enforcement

• Take down regime
• Following up alerts
• Contact and child abuse
• Deterrence
• Investigation
• Prosecution

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International co-operation

• Sharing education/awareness ideas
• Hotlines for take-down
• Shared lists for filtering
• Joint law enforcement operations
• Working with multi-national players
• Search engines
• Software developers
• Social networking sites

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ISP Filtering

• Key issues include
• Coverage (ie what is to be filtered?)
• Impact on internet speed
• Cost
• Accuracy
• Ease of circumvention
• Suitability to parent needs
• Voluntary/legislated