IAMAI, Facebook partner to educate children on Internet safety:

Press Trust of India | 15-Jul-2013 14:32 PM

Mumbai: Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) has joined hands with social networking giant Facebook to launch internet safety education programme in the country for students aged between 13 17 years.

The programme will train children, teachers and parents on how to reap maximum benefits from internet while not compromising on their safety and security, IAMAI and Facebook said in a joint statement today.

The campaign, which is focused on building community awareness on the issue, will also train educators and child safety NGOs about internet safety practices, it added.

As a part of the first phase, the programme will be rolled out across Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad to cover 18,000 students across about 30 schools and institutions, it added.

"IAMAI has been running the Safe Surfing campaign in India for past four years covering 6.25 lakh students across the country. We are delighted that Facebook has come forward to support this critical initiative and enrich the campaign with their global learnings," IAMAI President Subho Ray said.

The programme will conclude with a national conference in New Delhi addressing online child safety issues later this year. The program will be extended to other Indian cities through 2014.

"Safety is an ongoing conversation between parents and kids, teachers and students, companies and the people who use the Internet. We encourage parents to have conversations about safety and technology early and often, in the same way that they talk to their kids about being safe at school, in the car, on public transportation or playing sport," Facebook India Director of Public Policy Ankhi Das said.

Facebook will develop the content and training materials and translate the same in regional languages. As part of the partnership, Facebook safety specialists will work with IAMAI trainers on safety content and participate in these training programs.

Key presentations and events will be live streamed via https://www.facebook.com/FacebookIndia.

Facebook has already created a Safety Advisory Board that advises the company on safety issues. The members of that board are leading Internet safety organisations like Childnet international, Connect Safely, The Family Online Safety Institute, The National Network to End Domestic Violence and Wired Safety.

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National Child Safety Advocates to Write the Follow-Up Book to The Authority On™ Child Safety:

National Child Safety Advocates Partner With We Published That, L.L.C. to Write the Follow-Up Book to The Authority On™ Child Safety

Authors of the bestselling book, The Authority On™ Child Safety: How to talk to your kids about their personal safety without scaring them, Gary Martin Hays, Adam Weart, and Mary Ellen Fulkus have teamed up with Richard Swords, one of the highest ranking Krav Maga instructors in the US, to create the follow-up book in the series that will focus on teaching personal safety.

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The Authority On™ Child Safety, was published late last year and quickly achieved bestseller status on Amazon.com, even reaching #1 in the “Personal Safety” and “Health” categories. The book focuses on helping parents and caregivers start the conversation with children about their own personal safety in a non-threatening way.

The forthcoming book, The Authority On™ Child Safety Part II: How to TEACH your child about their personal safety, will act as a manual for parents and caregivers to follow when teaching children about personal safety. The book will cover topics ranging from “dialing 911” to “self defense in the event of an emergency.”

Richard Swords was asked to provide his expertise in this book, given his background in self-defense and child safety empowerment. Richard has trained thousands of men, women, and children in the art of self-defense and protection. He is a Krav Maga Black Belt Instructor, 1 of only 6 instructors in the United States certified by the Wingate Institute, the National Sports and Olympic training center for Israel, the home of Krav Maga. Richard is also a certified KMA Force Civilian Law Enforcement Instructor, Cross Fit Instructor, and 4th Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, with 25 years of experience in Martial Arts.

Krav Maga is based on simple principles and instinctive movements. This reality-based system is designed to teach real self-defense in the shortest possible time. It teaches to defend against common chokes, grabs, and bearhugs, as well as weapons such as guns, knives, and sticks. Just as important, it teaches people to function during the stress and shock of a sudden, violent encounter.

“Richard brings an amazing knowledge base to this book given his background, but he also genuinely cares about helping kids,” says Gary Martin Hays. All the authors from this book have agreed to donate 100% of the royalties to “Lets Protect Our Kids,” a child safety initiative.

The Authority On™ Child Safety Part II is scheduled to be published mid-2013 and will be available in paperback and in e-book format on Amazon.com.

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PureSight tops child Internet safety:

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Online child safety software vendor, PureSight, has been awarded top spot for the second consecutive year for its parental control tool which is designed to protect children online.

Online child safety software vendor, PureSight, has been awarded top spot for the second consecutive year for its parental control tool which is designed to protect children online.

PureSight received the award as a result of Owl's performance in the European Commission's SIP Benchmark II study, which aims to benchmark the main functionalities, effectiveness, and usability of parental control tools in Europe.

Puresight was handed the award at the Internet Industry Association's (IIA's) Gala Dinner at Doltone House in Sydney.

"The fact that PureSight maintained first position for all age groups reflects [its] ongoing commitment to protecting children online," PureSight CEO, Ouri Azulay, said.

The product, PureSight Owl, is an accredited IAA Family Friendly Filter that provides parents with the ability to protect children from cyberbullying, Internet predators, and unsolicited adult-orientated web sites.

The tools within the sweet are based on Active Chat Inspector (ACI) and Active Content Recognition (ACR) technologies, which promise to identify, classify, and block undesirable content and contacts.

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App allows parents to activate missing child alert:

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20 years ago 12-year-old Polly Klaas was kidnapped from her home in Petaluma. Since then her father, Mark Klaas, has devoted his life to helping other parents of missing children. And now he has turned to technology to further the cause.

In light of the recent search for Kevin Collins, who's been missing for 29 years, I think we've all been wondering what we can do to protect our own children. Certainly, technology is much different than it was in 1984 when Kevin disappeared. Now, there's a new app that could be a lifesaver.

The Polly Klaas Foundation has recently introduced a smartphone app calledPolly's Guardian Angel. If a child goes missing, the app enables parents to activate an alert right away to friends, family, and other nearby app users.

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David Gonzales has three children and downloaded the app because of a recent abduction in his town, "We live in Morgan Hill, so obviously Sierra LaMar was a big incident in our neighborhood and so it brings about the awareness of your own children," he said.

Parents can download the app onto their iPhone for $4.99. An Android version will be released within a month.

A parent loads all the vital information of their child including pictures and information.

Safety Grid President Jim Hankins developed the app, "Plain facts that you would be able to recall at any time, you're going to be stumbling, and having quick access to the photos right there and distribute them," he said.

When an alert is activated, other app holders within a 15 mile radius are immediately notified. The app then guides you through the next steps.

"It prompts you to contact 911 if you haven't done so and then beyond that it will put you in contact with trained personnel at the Polly Center," said Marc Klaas. He notes that minutes are critical after a child goes missing, "It's become obvious to many people that Amber Alerts are too slow and too cumbersome."

It can take up to five hours from an initial police report before an Amber Alert is activated.

"I think that it does give me a little bit more piece of mind," Gonzales said.

The Klaas Foundation has also endorsed a combination GPS device and restricted cell phone that can be locked onto a child's wrist. The hope is that it will act as a deterrent to a potential kidnapper.

The new technology components of the Klaas Kids Foundation are all partnerships with outside companies and only a portion of the revenue goes to the foundation itself.

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VivoPlay GPS+GSM Tracking/Safety Device for Kids:

Vivoplay tracking device with GSM, GPS and Wifi demonstration at CES 2013.

Trinity Mount Ministries assists in locating Missing Children and helps to stop Child Abuse.
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KlaasKids 3.0 – Happy Birthday Polly:

Today we should be celebrating Polly’s 32^nd birthday. Instead we are honoring her memory by introducing powerful new technology and philanthropic programs to the world that were inspired by her brief life.

2013 also represents the 20th year of our advocacy on behalf of America’s children. We can think of no better way to acknowledge that milestone than by providing 21^st century solutions that put the power of prevention and pro-action in the hands of families, neighborhoods and communities.

We have forcefully engaged the public policy arena for the past 20 years because we believe that public safety is Governments fundamental duty.  Every citizen has the right to walk on safe streets, to send their children to safe schools and to live without the fear of violence or victimization.

In the early 1990’s, when America was experiencing an epidemic of crime, we supported truth in sentencing, the assault weapons ban, and criminal accountability. We championed Megan’s Law so that communities would be aware of registered sex offenders in their midst. In the new millennium we spoke out loud and often for Jessica’s Law, and defended every effort to undermine California’s 3-Strikes & You’re Out Law. KlaasKids was one of the first organizations to acknowledge that the United States supplies much of our own human trafficking demand, and have worked diligently to educate the public and rescue underage victims of human trafficking. These past few years we have labored to update Megan’s Law into the 21^st Century by including internet identifiers as a component of the registration process.

But now, all of that work is coming undone, because of apathy and government incompetence. And those who will suffer the consequences are the very people government is entrusted to protect.

In recent years California’s Department of Public Health has ignored Jessica’s Law and paper screened tens of thousands of potential sexually violent predators like John Gardner back onto our streets.

In October 2011 Governor Brown’s prison realignment program reassigned the responsibility for housing and monitoring tens of thousands of so-called non serious, non-violent, non-sexual prison inmates from the state to the Counties. This is a responsibility that the counties were ill equipped to accept or handle, and as a result serious, violent and sexual crime rates have soared.

California voters overwhelmingly passed the 3-Strikes & You’re Out Law in 1994, and by 2012, you were half as likely to be a victim of violent crime as you would have been in 1993. Yet, a cleverly worded proposition has modified that law to the point that it is no longer worth the paper it was written on and we will soon be releasing third strikers back onto our streets. How do you think that is going to work out for all of us?

In 2011 we worked the halls of the California State Legislature to include Internet identifiers as a component of sex offender registration, only to run into a brick wall at every turn. In response we fought for Proposition 35, the CASE Act, on the November 2012 ballot and the people voted overwhelmingly to enact the policies that our politicians refused to ratify. More than 81% of voters agreed that internet identifiers should be included as a component of the sex offender registry. Yet only a few weeks ago the ACLU challenged the constitutionality of Prop 35 in the Superior Court of the State of California with false claims and phony arguments.

All of this tells me that we need to take responsibility for our own safety. I’m not suggesting that we arm ourselves to the teeth with handguns, rifles, assault weapons, or rocket propelled grenade launchers as some horrible old men in legislatures throughout the United States have been hinting at in response to Connecticut’s Sandy Hook massacre. Instead, we need to arm ourselves with knowledge, technology, and philanthropy. There are numerous child-safe technology solutions in the marketplace. Some work, and some don’t. However, all of them existed in a vacuum until today.

For more than a year now, the KlaasKids Foundation has been working with vendors, inventors and visionaries to produce a comprehensive suite of technology and funding tools to address the challenges faced by America’s small children and their families. Today, I’d like to introduce you to the fruits of our labor.

Cocoon for KlaasKids uses Cloud Technology to protect children from predators and abusive marketers. Polly’s Guardian Angel is a parent initiated missing child alert smart phone application. It provides the direct support of the KlaasKids Polly Center response team. The LEO Wristwatch is GPS, cell phone technology that cannot be as easily discarded as Sierra LaMar’s GPS enabled cell phone if your child has been stolen. And finally, the Klaas Family Housing Fund provides a new and innovative way to assist the families of missing children with housing expenses.

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KlaasKids To Introduce New Online Tools To Keep Kids Safe

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HSI’S NATIONAL SEARCH FOR ‘JANE DOE’ ENDS WITH ARREST OF FLORIDA WOMAN:

21 DECEMBER 2012

HSI’S NATIONAL SEARCH FOR ‘JANE DOE’ ENDS WITH ARREST OF FLORIDA WOMAN

The nationwide search for a “Jane Doe” suspected child pornographer, by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations(HSI), ended with the arrest of an Okaloosa County, Fla., woman on federal charges for child pornography production.

Corine Danielle Motley, 25, was arrested by HSI Pensacola special agents andNorthwest Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force members late Wednesday evening, hours after HSI issued a public appeal for assistance to identify “Jane Doe.”

“The quick identification of the victim and suspect in this case demonstrates the power of the press, social media and the general public in helping solve these cases,” said ICE Director John Morton. “Literally hours after we asked the public for their assistance in identifying Jane Doe, a tip came in that led to her identification and arrest. There is nothing more satisfying than knowing that, due to these efforts, a child is now safe and her tormentor now in custody.”

HSI’s Child Exploitation Investigations Unit’s Victim Identification Programobtained a “Jane Doe” arrest warrant Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for the suspect and issued a news release with photosseeking the public’s help to identify the suspect, after all other investigative leads had been exhausted.

According to the complaint, Motley is believed to have produced at least one long-form child pornography video featuring herself engaging in explicit sexual conduct with a 4 to 6-year-old victim.

HSI special agents received an investigative referral from the Danish National Police, after the video was downloaded by law enforcement officers in Denmark. The video was referred to HSI as Danish police believed that the video had most likely been produced in the United States. HSI submitted the material to theNational Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the national clearinghouse for child sexual exploitation material. The center determined that the victim had not yet been identified or rescued.

Investigators believe that the video was posted on the Internet for the first time Nov. 27.

The Department of Justice’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section supported the efforts of HSI during this investigation. The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Northwest Florida Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force also provided assistance. Participating members of the task force included: the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office, the Walton County Sheriff’s Officeand the Pensacola Police Department.

This investigation is part of Operation Predator, a nationwide HSI initiative to protect children from sexual predators, including those who travel overseas for sex with minors, Internet child pornographers, criminal alien sex offenders and child sex traffickers. HSI encourages the public to report suspected child predators and any suspicious activity through its toll-free hotline at 1-866-DHS-2-ICE or by completing its online tip form. Both are staffed around the clock by investigators.

Suspected child sexual exploitation or missing children may be reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, an Operation Predator partner, via its toll-free 24-hour hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST.

HSI is a founding member and the U.S. representative of the Virtual Global Taskforce, an international alliance of law enforcement agencies and private industry sector partners working together to prevent and deter online child sexual abuse.

The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida.

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New apps help parents when children go missing:

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A new breed of technology tools and apps are helping parents who have children who go missing. Picture: AFP 

 

FOR parents of children who wander off, a new breed of technology tools could be the difference between life and death.

Some tools are designed to beep when your toddler wanders away in a shopping mall or falls into a pool.
Others are being used to track special need children who can disappear from home as soon as their parents look away.

Elizabeth Smart, who in 2002 was a 14-year-old Utah girl kidnapped and help captive for 9 months, recently launched the iPhone app Hero for parents to use in those first vital moments after a child goes missing.

If a child is lost in a crowded area, a parent with the free Hero app sends out an instant notification that appears on every phone with that app within 8km, using the power of social media to sound the alarm.

Elizabeth Smart, who was held captive for nine months in 2002, has made an app to help parents when their child goes missing. Picture: AP

There are privacy concerns about the misuse of Apple’s Find My Friends app but it can be used to help family members stay in touch.

If it’s loaded on an iPhone or iPod Touch, you can find a person’s location, or at least the location of their phone.

This app can help for parents wanting to know their teenagers have arrived somewhere safely, or help friends find which end of the beach they should head to so they can meet up.

But that sort of device will not help every parent.

Melbourne-based financial planner Kathy Havers became the Australian distributor for the British company Lok8u and their GPS watch nu.m8+ after buying one herself to monitor her autistic teenager who had a history of wandering off.

She said many of the tracking devices were removable, which was a problem for parents of special needs children.

To the child wearing a nu.m8+, it seems just to be a digital watch.

But to a parent, it’s a locator tool. They can type a request in to a password-protected website or send a text using a mobile phone and, assuming the phone is line-of-sight to GPS satellites, will find their child’s location within three minutes.

It can be programmed to set off a warning to the parent if a child goes to a particular location, or if the child removes the wristband.

Because the watch uses GPS, it won’t help locate them if they’re inside a building, like a mall. But it will help parents find their child as soon as they leave a building.

The nu.m8+ comes in a range of price packages, starting at $250 for the watch and a monthly fee of $22.90.
Ms Havers says the majority of the people who make the purchases are parents of special needs kids with a habit of walking off.

"People don’t tend to spend that sort of money until their child has done it once and then you have this awful thing in your heart and your head that you can never have it happen again" she said.

Independent Living Centres Australia sells a range of gadgets that, unlike GPS sensors, can help parents find a child lost inside a building such as a shopping mall.

The Angel Alert is a high-tech necklace for the child that wirelessly connects to a receiver for a parent. If the two devices become more than 9m apart, the child’s device sounds a signal.

The Giggle Bug uses technology similar to wireless gadgets to help you find your car keys.

If you can’t see your child in a crowd, you hit a button on a hand-held unit and the click on lady bug on the child starts beeping. It is designed to work at a range up to 30m indoors.

The "Mommy I’m here" teddy bear is a similar gadget, and works up to 50m. The advanced model can be programmed to set off an alarm if the child goes more than 10m from the monitor carried by the parent.

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IBM IMPROVES CROSSWALK SAFETY WITH KID’S SMART IDEA:

It’s easier to have a slogan that promotes ‘Building a Smarter Planet’ than to actually do it. However, in an attempt to live up to their slogan, IBM turned to one of the largely untapped idea pools: children.

IBM asked kids, who tend to be more uninhibited and imaginative in a way many adults have lost, to help them come up with innovative ways to build a ‘Smarter Planet.’ Starting in the Netherlands, where IBM has a very limited communications budget, and that’s exactly what they did.

Out of the many ideas the Dutch children had to offer, IBM–with the help of Ogilvy and Mather, picked one to implement as an experiment. The problem the child saw was that many cars do not stop at the crosswalks, so the solution was simply to make them more visible, and hopefully safer for pedestrians.

On one of the busiest streets in Rotterdam, IBM installed a crossing that lit-up when someone stepped on it to cross. This way the crossway and pedestrians would be more visible to drivers, especially at night. Plus, it appears the light had the additional effect of acting as a kind of yield sign for drivers.

The cross walk definitely got the public’s attention. With a billboard about the child’s idea posted in combination with the lit-up crosswalk, a clearly innovative message was conveyed about changing the way you think and ‘Building a Smarter Planet.’

Check out the video of the project below:

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Ogilvy and Mather

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Four Ways to Keep Kids Safe Online

posted by Christina DesMarais on December 09, 2012 in , Computers and Software,Phones and Mobile, Guides & Reviews, Tech 101 :: 1 comment

Today, kids start using the Internet early. Elementary school teachers send home web addresses where students can practice spelling and math and older kids use the Internet to do research for assignments.

So the worrying also starts early. Kids can accidentally or purposefully landing on a porn site. On social networks, kids can get bullied, befriend strangers or share too much information. And what about time limits? Some kids will stay online for hours, but is doing so in their best interest?

The good news is there are plenty of parental control tools at your disposal.

Basic Protection in Operating Systems and Browsers

Both Windows and Mac OS X have built-in parental control features.

On a Windows 8 machine you can get to what Microsoft calls “Family Safety” either by going to Control Panel, User Accounts and Family Safety, or in Internet Explorer by clicking on Settings (the cog on the top right of the browser window), Internet Options, Content. From there it’s pretty self-explanatory and lets you add your child as a separate user and designate what kinds of websites, games and apps he or she can access as well as set time limits that control when the child can use the PC. You can even get activity reports. Here’s how to do it on a Windows 7 machine. Make sure you download Family Safety (free onmicrosoft.com) to get the website filtering and activity reports available with the built-in Windows 8 controls.

In Mac OS X you can set up your Parental Controls within System Preferences so as to manage, monitor, and control the time your kids spend on the Mac, the sites they visit, and who they chat with online using Safari.

Neither Google Chrome nor Mozilla Firefox include parental controls, but there are several Firefox extensions you can add to the browser. Keep in mind, however, that tech-savvy kids can easily disable them.

Even Better: Parental Controls in a Good Security Package

You may have access to more parental controls than you think, if you use an Internet security suite. That's because top-notch computer security companies, like Trend Micro, Symantec, Kaspersky and McAfee, buildparental controls into their packages. All include the ability to restrict Internet access to inappropriate content and set time limits.

Trend Micro's Titanium 2013 Maximum Security, Symantec's Norton Internet Security 2013 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 provide tools to make social networking sites safer by providing protection against malicious links and giving you control over who they communicate with. You can also get reports on your child's browsing habits and even see what they're watching online with.  Trend Micro and Symantec also provide reports on what your child is searching for and where they're going.

Best: Standalone Software

Parents who don’t want to take any chances should invest in software that laser focuses on protecting kids from Internet dangers. Here are our picks.

Bsecure Online

Bsecure Online offers filtering protection and reporting tools for Windows and includes social networking protection, online media filtering, text and e-mail alerts to parents regarding web and social network activity and a “whole home filtering” feature that filters any web-enabled devices that connect to your network, such as visiting laptops, iPhones and gaming consoles. Cost: $50 for three licenses at Bsecure.com.

Safe Eyes

The Safe Eyes parental controls product is part of McAfee's security portfolio and is compatible with Mac, PC, and iOS operating systems. It includes content controls that let you choose which kinds of websites and content are appropriate; program controls that control instant message programs, iTunes and peer-to-peer file sharing programs; time controls that lock down how long and at what times of day a child can use the Internet; usage logs that reports websites visited, programs used on the Internet, and instant messaging chats; as well as e-mail, text or phone alerts when someone visits an inappropriate website. Cost: $50 for three one-year licenses at InternetSecurity.com.

Don’t Forget About Mobile

In my story Mobile Devices: The New Pacifier, I recently reported that 25% of kids younger than 13 own their own mobile device and according to research firm Nielsen, more than half of teenagers between 13 and 17 have a smartphone. This means a lot of kids have full access to the Internet and its perils when they’re on the move. Be sure to use one of these effective apps for mobile devices.

Net Nanny for Android

Net Nanny makes a Mozilla browser default on your child’s device and even syncs with your Firefox desktop browser so you can access bookmarks and browsing history. It also offers plenty of ways to monitor, manage and block apps—a nice feature, considering Android on its own doesn’t require a log in before downloading them. It comes with age-appropriate or custom filtering, a feature that will replace swear words with characters like &%$@ on websites that are otherwise harmless. It also lets you manage and see activity on all your children’s devices from a web console. Net Nanny e-mails parents a weekly activity summary for each child. Cost: $20 a year after a 14-day trial period. Available at Google Play.

AVG Family Safety for iOS

AVG offers a free mobile browser to use as an alternative to Safari on Apple mobile devices. It protects kids from inappropriate websites, scams, fraud, phishing and potentially malicious websites. AVG Family Safety also includes a Do Not Track feature that tells you which websites are collecting data on your devices and lets you control whether to allow it. The app also records browsing history and bookmarks for favorite websites. Free at the Apple App Store.

Bottom Line: Technology Doesn’t Let Parents Off The Hook

All of these tools aside, Peter Beardmore, senior director of product marketing for the security firm Kaspersky Lab, warns that all the technology in the world can’t keep kids completely safe if parents aren’t involved. “We obviously sell technology and products that can help you parent, but the products and the technologies in and of themselves are not the ultimate answer to the problem. The ultimate answer to the problem is good communication with your kids, making sure that they actually understand the threats and the dangers that are out there, and facilitating supervision is where we can bring tools to bear,” he says.

For one thing, parents need to take a unique approach for each individual child.

“It really requires thinking a lot about who your kids are, what their personalities are, what types of things they’re likely to find themselves looking at and where the potential threats are in those areas,” he says.

Beardmore points out that four or five years ago the thing for parent to worry about was which websites their kids might access on a PC. Now, it’s a much more complex landscape when you consider kids are walking around with mobile devices in hand, texting people and using apps such as Skype or Facetime.

And speaking of apps, how do you know the apps your child is downloading won’t be harmful? Beardmore says there are several questions parents need to think about in terms of apps:

• Do you know which apps your child is downloading? Android doesn’t require a log-in for downloads and although iOS does, some parents give their kids the password anyway. Security tools can help with this transparency.
• Who is the publisher of the app and how is it monetized? Will my child be tempted to buy in-app purchases?
• Is the app part of a network that includes others outside of her domain of friends? Will strangers be able to communicate with her?

“These are things that we can throw technology at and we can throw additional intelligence and filtering capabilities as this world expands but we can’t do it 100 percent, we can’t do it completely,” Beardmore says. “It still requires that visibility of what’s going on those devices.”

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Cyber Tips - Child Internet Safety. "The Ethical Hacker" Terry Cutler:

Cyber Tips - Child Internet Safety. "The Ethical Hacker" Terry Cutler from Trinity Mount Ministries on Vimeo.

"The Ethical Hacker" Terry Cutler - Chief Technology Officer at Digital Locksmiths.

About Terry Cutler

Terry Cutler is a co-founder of Digital Locksmiths, Inc. – an IT security and data defense firm based in Montreal – and serves as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Terry’s career in the IT security space prior to his joining Digital Locksmiths has been long and distinguished. He was most recently a Premium Support Engineer for Novell in Canada where he analyzed network vulnerabilities and transitioned security technologies into production, and before that he held digital security leadership roles with a number of large corporations.

He is an expert in the fields of Novell Technologies, Penetration Testing, and Internet Safety for Children. He specializes in the anticipation, recognition, and prevention of security breaches. He consults with several of the largest agencies in Canada on how to reduce risk. During his Ethical Hacker training, Terry got the distinct privilege to train with the C.I.A, F.B.I, Navy Seals and Lockheed Martin.

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Missing child? There's an app for that:

28 NOV 2012, 3:06 PM   -   SOURCE: AAP

Australian and US law enforcement agencies have co-operated on a new app for parents to quickly find their lost kids.

Parents whose children go missing will be able to access a new smartphone application designed to help find lost kids.

The Australian Police Child ID app was launched by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in partnership with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Canberra on Wednesday.

The locally-developed software, which is based on a US version, allows parents to store information and pictures of their child on their smartphones, ready to hand over to police if they go missing.

Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said the app was a great example of Australian and US law enforcement partnering to protect children.

"When a child goes missing, every second counts," he said.

US Ambassador to Australia Jeff Bleich said the app showed how technology being used to increase security.

"Nations devote vast resources to protecting our shores, our possessions, our national resources," he told reporters.

"And yet there is no resource that is more precious to us than our children."

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