The Internet
Benefits and Risks
Jeff Haslam
E-safety advisor
Cumbria Children's Services Directorate
The Internet- is it changing??
WEB v 1
Corporate
Static
WEB v 2
WEB v 3
Parent
Interactive
Young Person
Scary??
Everybody?
A Few Facts…
• 76% have internet access at home
• 56% have access in their bedrooom
– 31% have a webcam on their computer
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25%have a Bebo profile
22% use MSN (3 – 200 buddies)
40% have buddies they didn’t know
47%have a mobile phone
36% can access the internet via their mobile
22% have received a “nasty” text message
What were people googling in
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World Trade Centre
Harry Potter
Anthrax
Windows xp
Osama bin laden
Audiogalaxy
Taliban
Kazaa
Jennifer Lopez
XBox
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Shakira
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Britney Spears
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Britney Spears
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Myspace
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Winter Olympics
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Harry Potter
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Paris Hilton
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Ares
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World Cup
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Matrix
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Christina Aguilera
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Baidu
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Avril Lavigne
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Shakira
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Pamela Anderson
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Wikipedia
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Star Wars
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David Beckham
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Chat
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Orkut
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Eminem
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50 Cent
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Games
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iTunes
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Warcraft 3
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Iraq
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Carmen Electra
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Sky News
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Natalie Portman
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Lord of the Rings
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Orlando Bloom
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World of Warcraft
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Trillian
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Kobe Bryant
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Harry Potter
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Green Day
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Gareth Gates
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Tour de France
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MP3
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Ikea
What were people googling Last
Year?
 IPhone
 Badoo
 Facebook
 DailyMotion
 Webkinz
 YouTube
 EBuddy
 Second Life
 Hi5
 Club Penguin
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Who is god?
Who is Satan?
What is love?
What is emo?
How to kiss?
How to flirt?
What are young people looking
for?
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Proxies
Social Networking
Content Sharing
Chat Environments
Instant messaging
Email providers
Website hosts
Solutions to their problems
(Homework)
Proxy
Blocked
content
School
What are young people doing on the Web?
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Blogging
Sharing music
Social networking
Gaming
Messaging
Commenting on others’ sites
Personalising their own pages
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Emailing
Do parents know this?
7% of parents think their child has
received unwanted sexual
comments
33% of 9-19 yr olds have received unwanted
sexual comments
26% of parents can check
website history
65% of young people can clear Internet history
26% of parents can deny
access to specific websites
46% of children can bypass parental
blocks
1% of parents think their
children are blogging –
67% don’t know what a
blog is
33% of children use a blog
regularly
16% of parents think their
child has seen pornography
on the Internet
57% of 9-19 yr olds have come into contact
with pornography on the Internet
Source: Byron Review
What’s the Risk?
Email
Spam – approx (? More than ?) half mail
sent
Bullying
Scams
Phishing
Virus’s
?? published details of his Barclays
account in the Sun newspaper,
including his account number and sort
code. He even told people how to find
out his address
"I opened my bank statement this
morning to find out that someone has
set up a direct debit which
automatically takes £500 from my
account," he said.
"Contrary to what I said at the time, we
must go after the idiots who lost the
discs and stick cocktail sticks in their
eyes until they beg for mercy."
What’s the risk?
Content
Over 4 billion websites
260 million Porn related web pages
¼ of daily searches are for porn
18000 new sites a day
Cumbria schools request @ 1000 webpages per second
Of which 21,000 requests denied daily – includes adverts
And 9700 requests for “adult” content denied
BT block 35,000 requests for child sex abuse images every day!
Validity and Bias (Media Literacy)
• www.allaboutexplorers.com
What’s good?
Chat / IM
Huge variety of topics to subscribe to
Instantaneous
Everyone has a voice
Young people can discuss topics with their peers
What’s the risks?
•Unwanted contact
•Escalation of
emotion leading to
flaming
•Bullying
•Posted comments
can be saved by
others including
webcam images
•Self Generated
Risk
Chat / IM
•46% have given
personal information
to someone they met
online
•30% of children using
chat meet new friends.
•12% then go on to
meet face to face.
Social Networking
The risks
All of Chat / IM but more
graphic
Mobile Social Networking
• Location - based
Mobile Social Networking
• Location - based
Cyberbullying – offline=online
What are the Risks?
grooming
Teens deliberately contacting older males for sex - Child trafficking
sexual solicitation by peer group
Girls posting nude images of themselves on SN site Boy having / distributing nude picture of girlfriend Blackmail
Identity theft
Teens providing images for payment
Bullying & Harassment
Future employment / university??
Can happen both on & offline??
is this illegal??
Is this child sex abuse??
Three Strategic Objectives for
Child Internet Safety
Restrict Access
• Equip children and
their parents to
effectively manage
access to harmful and
inappropriate content,
avoid incidences of
harmful and
inappropriate contact
and reduce harmful
and inappropriate
conduct.
Increase Resilience
• Equip children to deal
with exposure to
harmful and
inappropriate content
and contact, and equip
parents to help their
children deal with these
things and parent
effectively around
incidences of h and i
conduct by their
children.
Reduce Availability
• of harmful and
inappropriate content,
the prevalence of
harmful and
inappropriate contact
and the
conduciveness of
platforms to harmful
and inappropriate
conduct.
What Can You Do?
Make sure your AUP is up to date and covers new
technologies.
Use freely available resources – use from an early age
Keep parents onboard with policies and educate them as
well
Look at BECTA E-safety guidance documents –
“How e-safe are your school and your learners?”
Try the NEN E-safety audit – www.nen.gov.uk
Who can Help!
CEOP
Child Exploitation
and Online
Protection Centre.
Provide materials
and training. It also
tracks down
offenders and
provides the ‘report
abuse’ – red button
system.
BUT REMEMBER
The risks are small – @ 4000 children below the age of 16 killed or injured every
year in car accidents.
&
THE INTERNET IS A GREAT
PLACE