Safeguarding IT Awareness
Presented by
PC
Paul Sullivan
Bradford District
(credit : PC’s David Cockroft * Firzana Ahmed)
Top 10 internet activities
Activity
Top 10 internet activities carried out at least once a week, by
age: 2012
5-7yrs
8-11yrs
12-15yrs
Schoolwork / homework
38
67
82
Online games
47
51
47
Surfing / browsing
15
38
71
Social networking
3
19
75
Videos
9
25
56
Music
7
19
53
Avatar websites
33
36
15
TV
24
21
28
Wikipedia website
4
19
38
Instant messaging
1
11
45
* Ofcom – March 2012
In the last 25 seconds…
… there have been:
264 new blog posts
245 members added on Facebook
14,699 tweets sent on Twitter
293,981 videos watched on YouTube
72,613,488 emails sent globally
587,962 searches made on Google
4,832,576 SMS’s sent worldwide
Urban Dictionary
• www.urbandictionary.
com
Examples of Electronic Chat
• HI M8 Btw RU VGL? CU L8er
• = Hi mate by the way are you very good looking?
See you later
• Btw this is a PM! A/S/L
• = By the way this is a private message.
What’s your age, sex and location?
Watching/Chatting/Sending
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Pornographic sites
Adults
Sending compromising photographs
Arranging meetings
Right Wing Extremism
IS Beheadings
Jihadi Brides
Foreign Travel
VIDEO
10 Years Old
Communications Act 2003
• Section 127 covers • or menacing
ALL forms of public
communications
• purpose of
causing
• sends or causes a
message
• annoyance,
• grossly offensive, • inconvenience
• needless anxiety
• indecent,
• obscene
Penalties
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Law - 6 months imprisonment
or fine
(who pays £££ ?)
Social - difficulty to get a job
- SEX OFFENDER REGISTER
Broaching the subject….
So what can you do now?
• Get involved in your child/student’s online activity
• Support the home/school
• Encourage other activities
Useful Sites / Contacts
• www.thinkuknow.co.uk for more information on
grooming and other online issues
• www.cybermentors.org.uk for issues and info on
cyberbullying
• www.iwf.com for inappropriate web content
• www.westyorkshire.police.uk West Yorkshire
Police tel: 101
• www.crimestoppers-uk.org Crimestoppers
tel: 0800 555 111
Police contact
• PC 2093 Paul Sullivan
m: 07968 605 392
e:
[email protected]