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KEEPING OUR PERSONAL
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DIGITAL WELLBEING
Keeping Our Personal Information Safe
Why we have age limits on social media
Although it might feel like age restrictions on games and social media
are annoying and not of significance, they are actually doing a massively
important job… they keep our personal information safe. It is so important
to keep our personal information off the world wide web (www), that the
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (USA COPPA law) was created to make
sure organisations comply.
This law makes it clear that absolutely no personal information from anyone
under 13 years old, can be collected from any organisation unless a parent or
carer gives their permission. Big organisations, therefore, set 13 years of age
(or older) as their age limit to avoid having to seek permission, and therefore
guarantee this security for each child.
Everyone over 13 (or above for some sites) still has to give their permission
for their personal information to be collected, and to do this, companies
always require an agreement to their terms and conditions when signing up.
Although these are really long and hard to read, it is important for everyone
to read them carefully before signing to make sure they are understood. It’s a
good idea when we are at the correct age, to get one of our adults to do this
with us.
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Knowing the warning signs of grooming
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Criminals and grooming online
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Grooming is often done online through games or social platforms, and it is
when an adult, or any other person, approaches someone with what seems
like really positive attention and/or lots of respect in order to gain trust so
that they can get the young person to do sexual or illegal activity for or with
them. They are very clever so it can be hard to recognise it as grooming but if
we’re worried at all it’s really important to tell someone and get help.
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An older person approaches us with a lot of admiration or respect.
Someone tries to find out lots about us.
Someone offers to buy us things or wants to meet up.
We are approached out of the blue by an older peer or
person online.
Someone says that they can help us to earn lots of money.
Someone sends us intimate pictures and/or asks us to.
They threaten us or our family.
We feel in our gut that something isn’t right.
Someone says not to tell other people about them.
How to get support
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One of the reasons why these laws are so important is that although the
internet is full of lots of amazing information and people, there are also
criminals who lurk there. They are waiting to trick us into giving them our
information, stealing our money and in some cases wanting to groom children
and young people into criminal activity or abuse.
Use a nickname when creating a profile.
Don’t add details such as full name, address, phone number.
Set privacy settings on platforms to ‘friends only’.
Never agree to meet anyone that we meet online without an adult.
Check privacy settings on phones.
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Remember, if something has happened online that feels wrong or
that worries us, however bad or embarrassing it feels, it is always
the criminal that has done wrong, not us, the victim.
Always reach out to a trusted adult at home or at school.
Keep any messages, conversations and pictures as these are very
important evidence of what the criminal has said or done.
Report them — with or without our trusted adult, we can report it
directly to the platform and/or to CEOP — Child Exploitation and
Online Protection (www.ceop.police.co.uk).
• CEOP is a law enforcement agency that helps children and young
people to keep safe from online grooming and abuse.
• Simply search ‘CEOP, should I make a report?’, and read how
their easy process works. We can also complete this if we are
worried about a friend.
• If we feel we are in immediate danger, we can always call 999.
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Digital Wellbeing
The term digital wellbeing has lots of different definitions but essentially, it’s
about understanding the impacts of technology on our physical, emotional
and mental health, i.e. our personal wellbeing.
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