INTERNET SAFETY

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INTERNET SAFETY

• How can we help our students to use the Internet
  in a safer way ?

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MAIN ISSUES

• Benefits
• Possible dangers and risks
• Available solutions to protect children
• Control tools
• Safety tips

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1 BENEFITS OF THE INTERNET

• You can share a wide range of information and
  opinions
• You can communicate with people from different
  cultures
• You have no limits of time or location

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New Opportunities

• Education
• Take an online course, access help with homework
• Leisure
• Play games, enjoy hobbies
• Culture
• Visit museums, learn about other cultures
• Economy
• Shopping at a supermarket, order books, records,
  travel tickets, participate in online auctions
• Social life
• Make new friends, socialise with people with
  similar interests

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2 POSSIBLE DANGERS

• Content
• Contact
• E-commerce
• Legal risks

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Content risks

• Illicit material
• Child pornography, racism, fraud, illegal drugs,
  support of terrorism
• Harmful material
• Pornography for adults, violence, adult language,
  promoting the use of arms, extremist groups,
  cults
• Other content-related risks
• Misleading or false information, source or
  privacy policy not available, intentional flaming

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Contact risks

• Internet allows contacts with strangers
• In the online world, you can find the same as in
  the offline world
• Reliable and unreliable people
• Someone can surf anonymously
• So we cannot find out his/her real name, sex,
  age, job
• Therefore the Internet is an ideal place for
  paedophiles and other predators
• There are several contact areas
• Chats, newsgroups, instant messaging, email, web
  pages ..

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So, it is risky to

• to give out personal information
• to establish relationships
• to acceed to suggestion to meet someone face to
  face
• to get into arguments flaming
• because you may become a victim of
• Offending
• Provoking
• Stalking
• Threatening
• Harassing
• Sexual abusing

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Risks of e-commerce

• Minors are easily influenced
• Children like buying on the Internet
• Maladies and risks when shopping online
• Subliminal advertising appealing, especially for
  children
• Commercial pressures to buy easily specious
  offers
• Misleading advertising and ambiguous terms
• Companys privacy policy companies may convey
  your personal information to third parties
• Loss of privacy when revealing personal details
• Possible limitations and difficulties applying
  consumer protection policies to online purchases
• Children buying without their parents permission

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Legal risks

• Children may not just be potential victims
• Children can also be liable for illegal acts
  like
• Being impolite and unpleasant, behaving
  offensively, committing flaming, spams
• Harming other people deliberately, for example,
  revealing their personal details, impersonating
• Committing illegal activities violation of
  intellectual property rights, threats, cracking

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3 WHAT ARE THE SOLUTIONS?

• Raising awareness by education students
• Control tools
• Walled gardens
• Content rating
• Hotlines for reporting
• Self regulation
• Legislation
• Age control systems

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4 CONTROL TOOLS

• Technical solutions, for example filtering
  software, are not 100 foolproof
• When applying control tools, the school/parents
  must also consider the concept of freedom of
  speech

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Filters

• Most popular control tools
• Restrict access to sites with illegal and harmful
  content
• Filters can be enabled from different locations
• From a users computer
• From the Internet Service Providers server

Not 100 foolproof
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Other control tools

• We can control and preset the time and length of
  the visit
• We can monitor which websites children visit
• We can block access to certain sites and
  services, for example chat rooms
• We can block the edition or reception of certain
  information personal information, publicity
• We can use special browsers for children

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5 SAFETY TIPS

• Make yourself familiar with
• Your schools Acceptable Use Policy
• Your schools basic rules for accessing the
  Internet
• Rules for Safe and Acceptable Use of the Internet
• Discuss with your students .
• The rules for Safe and Acceptable use of the
  Internet
• The consequences of deliberate violation of these
  rules

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Safety tips 2

• When faced with a problem, react immediately .
• For example, talk with the student
• Contact appropriate staff in school, in order to
  
• Report child pornography to a hotline
• Prevent similar incidents in the future

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Safety tips 3

• Teach your students how to use the Internet in a
  responsible manner
• How to distinguish between recommendable and
  harmful content
• How to use the computer positively and
  avoidharming anyone
• How to solve possible risks themselves

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Safety tips 4

• Give students these safety tips .
• Never reveal your personal details
• Never fill in online registration forms without
  an adults permission
• Talk about and introduce new online friends
• Never meet someone youve encountered online,
  without the permission or supervision of an
  adult
• Never open messages from unknown people
• Leave a chat room immediately if you are made to
  feel uncomfortable.
• Tell teachers about unpleasant experiences,
  immediately

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Acknowledgement

• Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca, SUI Project,
  Internet Action Plan
• Núria Quintana
• nuriaq_at_fcr.es

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