“Parents, recommended the children and not leave them alone in the network” – Gazzetta di Modena

“Parents: do not neglect the social activities of your children. It is not about violating privacy but to warn them and protect them from dangers that can be very serious. ” This is the invitation that operators feel the Postal Police to launch parents struggling with very young children, minors, attracted as tuti peers from the web and those that ensues. Some people do not follow up and those who do it. The measures used by parents were the restrictions on access to some websites (53%) and to information that they post about them on their social networks (51%), together with those that their children can share with their circles of friends online (47%).

In addition, 42% of Italian parents said incidents of cybercrime suffered by children, the most frequent of which were downloading a virus on their PC or on that of the family (20%), replies to phishing emails (9%), episodes of smishing (the variant of SMS phishing) and violations of company profiles (both in third place in the standings, with 8% of the responses). In this context, the major concerns of parents concern for 61% fear that their children may give too much information to strangers, 59% fear that they may be duped to encounter bad guys and 53% that they may suffer bullying or harassment.

Initiatives such as the World Day dedicated to Internet security – now celebrated in more than 100 countries – are very important because they help to bring the network security to the attention of a large number of users, especially adults, We are today in our country the least aware of the importance of educating children to make safe, informed and responsible web. And the risk is present for all. Suffice to say that in 2015 in Emilia Romagna were two arrests made for

online pedophilia and 25 people reported, 31 complaints received on the phenomenon, 280 sites monitored, 35 searches carried out and 48 child porn websites included in the black list “- said Geo Ceccaroli Manager of the Postal Police of Bologna and Communications.