Web safe with police advice – Il Tirreno

PISA. Cyber ​​bullying at the center of the “Safer Internet Day 2016″ which was held yesterday sponsored by the postal police in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, University and Research, aimed at schools of the province of Pisa.

the event was planned in schools of 100 Italian provincial capitals.

“one life to social,” as many know by now, is a traveling project developed by the Postal police which aims to help users Network to sail safely and deal with awareness and control of shared data online.

the goal of the training is to teach kids to exploit the communication potential of the web and the online community safely related to cyber bullying, infringement of others and their privacy, the loading of inappropriate content, copyright infringement and the adoption of incorrect or dangerous behavior for himself and for others. Effective rules for using the Net safely.

Since the last report shows that 92% of Italian parents said he was concerned about the online safety of their children, and three out of four said they had taken precautions to protect them.

most measures used by parents were the restrictions on access to some web sites (53%) and to the information they post about them on their own Social Network (51%), together to 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 are been downloading a virus on their PC or on that of the family (20%), replies to e-mail phishing (9%), episodes of smishing (the variant of SMS phishing) and violations of company profiles (both the third place in the standings, with 8% of the responses).

in this context, the greatest concern

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.

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