Safer Internet Day

The development of technology has turned the most of us, and mainly the users of young age, into publishers of different types of information: text, images, video etc. Uploading this information can have both positive and negative sides, depending on the way people manage data, especially sensitive and personal data.

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Tesla’s officer of Internet Trust and Safety has underlined the importance of parental control over the children’s online activities. Most persons in this category, children and teenagers are not aware of the fact that once data is published over the internet, it is public and available to almost anyone. Darren Kane expressed his full support for the Think B4 U post campaign which is this year’s activity theme.

Another target of this year’s campaign is Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 browser. CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection) and Microsoft have worked in concert to add a webslice with a button that will append search suggestions. The ClickCEOP button will offer specialized assistance to children. The respective information is also available at https://www.ceop.police.uk/reportabuse/ for users that have other browsers than Internet Explorer 8. This Child care project has been expanded and implemented in a program to deliver online security for a considerable number of schools.

Executive of CEOP Jim Gmable explained how this is a matter of demeanor rather than technology and that children need to get education, support and understanding to deal with the vast situations the Internet may put them into.