LIFARS - Social Media Dangers to Children
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A presentation given by LIFARS at a conference MEPA EU Police Academy conference on May 2016. It covers the dangers that the internet and social media pose to children and adolescents. More and more, we're seeing that social media are opening the gates to cyberbullying, cyber extortion, sextortion, cyber stalking and more. Any parts of this presentation can be adopted and reused as long as attribution is given. For inquiries, please contact pr@lifars.com.
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- 1. Dangers of Social Media By Michal NEMCOK
- 2. helps businesses defend their networks and reputation by providing elite cybersecurity solutions with military- style Incident Response and Digital Forensics. Our mission objective is clear: PROTECTING YOUR BUSINESS
- 4. Internet as a Gateway ⢠Opens new channels for criminals to conduct criminal activities (social media, text/video chat rooms, and more) ⢠Networks such as TOR allow high anonymity and perpetrate sharing of adolescent criminal content
- 5. Privacy? Whatâs That? Definition: A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people.
- 9. See For Yourselves Tool I like to use: NoScript for Firefox Remember this screenshot? Too small to see? Letâs zoom in!
- 10. What Have We Learned So Far? Whether you like it or not, for most users, there is no privacy online.
- 11. Do Adolescents Know or Care? Letâs ask these thousands of teens
- 12. The Snappening ⢠Hundreds of thousands of photos leaked from Snapchat â the fastest growing social media network. ⢠Snapchat is the most popular social network for teenagers ⢠Many nude photos likely of underage girls ⢠Easily downloadable online â even today (a year and a half later)
- 13. The Snappening ⢠Most teens think snaps are deleted forever and are more likely to send nude pictures ⢠Snapchat users can save snaps â screenshots or online services ⢠The leak did not slow down the networkâs growth at all
- 14. Snapchat Facts ⢠There are an estimated 82 million users, with a majority of them between the age of 13 to 25 years old. ⢠There are roughly 350 million posts or âsnapsâ sent daily. ⢠Four out of every ten teens frequent Snapchat. ⢠Snapchat has equaled Facebook for numbers of photos shared. Snapchat is the fastest growing social media app. surpassing even Instagram, which has been ranked as the number-one favorite app for teens:
- 15. Snapchat Privacy New privacy policy causes major concerns
- 17. What About Others? Are other social networks/apps any better/safer? Letâs seeâŚ
- 18. Yik Yak - Cyberbullyâs Dream ⢠Yik Yak enables anonymous posts based on location â shown to the nearest 500 people ⢠Used primarily by teenagers ⢠Abused for: Cyberbullying Anonymous threats â such as bomb, attacks
- 19. Yik Yak Threats ⢠Yik Yak gained (in)fame over recent years for threats â ranging from personal to public ⢠Cyberbullyâs dream â especially in schools
- 20. Tinder ⢠Dating app often used for âone night standsâ ⢠About 7% are teens under 18 (with about 50 million users in 2014 thatâs almost 4 million) ⢠App has age-restrictions, but data is pulled from Facebook and teens can lie about age to gain access ⢠Sexual predators look for teens on Tinder ⢠Adults have been murdered after meeting on Tinder - What Is It?
- 22. Cyberbullying Facts Nearly 43% of kids have been bullied online. 1 in 4 has had it happen more than once. 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online. Over 80% of teens use a cell phone regularly, making it the most common medium for cyber bullying. 68% of teens agree that cyber bullying is a serious problem. 81% of young people think bullying online is easier to get away with than bullying in person. Only 1 in 10 victims will inform a parent or trusted adult of their abuse. Bullying victims are 2 to 9 times more likely to consider committing suicide. Source: www.dosomething.org
- 24. Other of Cybercrimes ⢠Cyberstalking ⢠Cyberbullying ⢠Cyberenticement ⢠Child pornography ⢠Cyberextortion
- 25. Challenges for Parents ⢠Adolescents themselves often do not understand the risks ⢠Very difficult for parents to supervise children on the Internet ⢠Fast-paced evolution of new apps and social media platforms used by adolescents
- 26. Challenges for Law Enforcement ⢠Lack of legal tools available ⢠Limited human and financial resources ⢠Often limited understanding of the platforms involved ⢠Technical limitations
- 27. Recognizing a Crime U.S. Law Enforcement Perceptions Regarding Responsibility in Dealing with Cyberbullying
- 28. What Can Be Done? ⢠Knowledge â information is the key ⢠Recognizing a crime when there is one ⢠Knowing how to respond ⢠Raising awareness
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Editor's Notes
- How do you define privacy in the digital age? A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people. â think about that for a second â when was the last time that happened online? People â especially adolescents do not realize what theyâre giving up Social media make it really hard to keep privacy â they are, by design, about sharing and privacy is in the back seat
- Some people might never realize what they lost. Maybe talk about my generation and how I saw social media develop and was a part of most â from My Space to FB to Snapchat and Instagram and the privacy loss along the way.
- Looking at this â we see that: Nothing we do is private - not just on Facebook, but everywhere on the web. Talk about some of the points and what they really mean
- Facebook and other social media and advertising sites always under fire from individuals and governments for tracking users. Like button found on millions of websites used for monitoring user activity â including adolescents Facebook knows more about what adolescents are doing online than their parents
- Quick distraction for some geeks in the audience. Extensions like NoScript allow blocking scripts on websites â as a side effect â you can see a list of all the scripts that run on the page you are visiting. AND ITâS A LOT OF THEM!!! Wondering about the free space? I did a bit of research into scorecard research â turns out they track your activity as wellâŚ
- Following the Fappening leak where celebrity photos were leaked, the Snappening leak contained over 13 GB of data â potentially including underage teens posing nude. The database was so easily accessible, almost anyone could download it. Itâs been even published online in browseable websites. The screenshot shows links to download the files on a popular image sharing website - Imgur
- Although the leak was all over the media, there
- Consider the implications and keep in mind that this is a social media network used primarily by teens
- Here are some usersâ reactions to the new privacy policy. What do you think about it? Would you feel comfortable if your 14 year old teen was using the network?
- Enabling users to create anonymous ad hoc online social chat rooms (like a local bulletin board) of as many as 500 users â linked only by geographical location â Yik Yak has moderation in place, but it is entirely controlled by the users. Presumably, 500 anonymous teenagers. Although a 17+ age rating is specified, this isnât enforced and the app is free, so no over-18/21 credit card is required. The cause of various headline-making pranks thanks to its anonymous posting, Yik Yak is an aberration. Are your teenagers using it? Perhaps itâs time to engage them with other activities, if only to spend some time pointing out that better ways to communicate exist than resorting to Yik Yak.
- Enabling users to create anonymous ad hoc online social chat rooms (like a local bulletin board) of as many as 500 users â linked only by geographical location â Yik Yak has moderation in place, but it is entirely controlled by the users. Presumably, 500 anonymous teenagers. Although a 17+ age rating is specified, this isnât enforced and the app is free, so no over-18/21 credit card is required. The cause of various headline-making pranks thanks to its anonymous posting, Yik Yak is an aberration. Are your teenagers using it? Perhaps itâs time to engage them with other activities, if only to spend some time pointing out that better ways to communicate exist than resorting to Yik Yak.
- Looking into this, Iâve discovered that â bizarrely â the minimum age of use is 13 years, with UK newspaper The Independent recently asserting a considerable 7% of its users are 13-17 years old. Of concern is that way the app integrates with Facebookâs login system to gain age information (which can be easily falsified on Facebook) and the bully-baiting âfeatureâ of upvoting and downvoting a profile photo based on the subjectâs physical appearance. Dealing with Tinder is in theory tough, but think of it this way: there is no reasonable cause for a teenager to be using a face-rating/flirting/dating site for adults.
- Do you remember this young girl? Her name is Amanda. A few years ago â Amandaâs story made the international headlines. On September 7, 2012, Todd posted a 9-minute YouTube video entitled My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self-harm, which showed her using a series of flash cards to tell of her experiences being bullied.[9] The video post went viral after her death on October 10, 2012, receiving over 1,600,000 views by October 13, 2012,[10] with news websites from around the world linking to it. Facebook photo of Amanda Todd During the video, Todd writes that when she was in grade 7 (2009/2010), around the same time she moved in with her father,[11] she used video chat to meet new people over the Internet and she received compliments on her looks.[9][12] A stranger convinced Todd to bare her breasts on camera, following one year of attempts at having her do so.[9][12] The individual later blackmailed her with threats of providing the topless photo to her friends unless she gave him a "show".[9][12][13] Todd wrote that during the Christmas 2010 break, police informed her at 4:00 a.m. that the photo was circulating on the Internet.[9][12] She wrote that she experienced anxiety, depression, and panic disorder due to her experiences of being sexually exploited online and being cyberbullied. A year later, the individual reappeared, creating a Facebook profile which used the topless photograph as the profile image, and contacting classmates at her new school. In 2014 â the Dutch police caught a man that was involved with multiple victims. That same month, the RCMP announced that the man had been charged with extortion, internet luring, criminal harassment and the possession and distribution of child pornography for his alleged activities against Amanda Todd and other child victims, both male and female.
- You cannot keep track of everything kids do online â even if you try. Teenagers especially are smart and they can often outsmart their parents I would consider myself young, and I have a hard time keeping up with the newest trends, now imagine the parents⌠Possibly the biggest challenge? Adolescents do not understand the dangers. You may try explaining it to them, and while it might make sense to you, to them, they probably think youâre just crazy and paranoid, etc⌠On top of thatâŚhow do you want to teach them about something you donât understand?
- Ninety-four percent of SROs agreed that cyberbullying was a serious problem warranting a law enforcement response. Seventy-eight percent stated that they conducted cyberbullying investigations (an average of 16 separate incidents) during the previous school year. Of the 336 respondents, 93 percent indicated that sexting was an important concern for law enforcement officers. Sixty-seven percent reported investigating an average of five sexting incidents in the previous year. Approximately 50 percent of the SROs commented that the school in which they worked had a policy on cyberbullying; however, only 25 percent said there was a sexting policy. Eighteen percent of the respondents were unsure whether there were policies in place. Officers reported that most cyberbullying occurred through social networking or text messaging. One officer described an incident that involved female students spreading defamatory information about one classmateâs sexual activities, choice of boyfriends, and other associations. Officers, school administrators, and parents worked together to alleviate the problem by advising the involved students that their behavior possibly could be criminal and that subsequent harassment would involve the court system. Generally, sexting incidents involve romantic partners. One SRO stated that boyfriends and girlfriends send pictures to each other, sometimes with the boy sharing the girlâs photos with his friends. Images sent and received as part of a consensual relationship received informal handling with officers talking to students and parents about the seriousness of the situation. When coercion or unauthorized distribution occurred, formal prosecution was likely. An officer conveyed a situation where a girl made an obscene video for her boyfriend, who distributed it to multiple other people, resulting in a child pornography investigation.
- This is a survey of police officers at U.S schools vs FBI answers. Ninety-four percent of SROs agreed that cyberbullying was a serious problem warranting a law enforcement response. Seventy-eight percent stated that they conducted cyberbullying investigations (an average of 16 separate incidents) during the previous school year. Of the 336 respondents, 93 percent indicated that sexting was an important concern for law enforcement officers. Sixty-seven percent reported investigating an average of five sexting incidents in the previous year. Approximately 50 percent of the SROs commented that the school in which they worked had a policy on cyberbullying; however, only 25 percent said there was a sexting policy. Eighteen percent of the respondents were unsure whether there were policies in place. Officers reported that most cyberbullying occurred through social networking or text messaging. One officer described an incident that involved female students spreading defamatory information about one classmateâs sexual activities, choice of boyfriends, and other associations. Officers, school administrators, and parents worked together to alleviate the problem by advising the involved students that their behavior possibly could be criminal and that subsequent harassment would involve the court system. Generally, sexting incidents involve romantic partners. One SRO stated that boyfriends and girlfriends send pictures to each other, sometimes with the boy sharing the girlâs photos with his friends. Images sent and received as part of a consensual relationship received informal handling with officers talking to students and parents about the seriousness of the situation. When coercion or unauthorized distribution occurred, formal prosecution was likely. An officer conveyed a situation where a girl made an obscene video for her boyfriend, who distributed it to multiple other people, resulting in a child pornography investigation.
- Just being aware of what is a cybercrime and cyberbullying, what platforms and apps kids are using, and how they can be abused helps. Knowing about cybercrimes such as cyberbullying and recognizing them as such is the first step. Educating law enforcement officials about the proper response to a particular type of crime Through discussion such as what Iâm doing here today, we are helping to raise awareness and secure better response in the future and possibly higher budgets as well Source: Cyberbullying Prevention and Response: Expert Perspectives
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