Georgi Apostolov – Child’s privacy on the Internet

Child privacy
in internet

Bulgarian
Safer Internet Centre
Safenet.bg

www.metamorphosis.org.mk/fpi #fpi12

Safer Internet Centre in Bulgaria
 Hotline: operational since May 2006
 Operator: Applied Research and Communications Fund
NGO established in 1991. Main spheres of activities – information
society and innovations
 Effectiveness: 751 reports in 2011 – 146 actionable; 13
transmitted to police; 15 transmitted to other Hotlines; 48 – to
content owners and ISPs, 20 replies to queries
 Awareness node InSafe – from June 2008, consortium with
Parents Association, and DeConi Advertising Agency;
 Helpline – launched in April 2011, tel.124 123, email, chat
 Operator: Association Parents
 Effectiveness: 363 calls and inquiries; 261 consultations; 27
redirected to the Hotline; 4 redirected to other organisations

Privacy of children in the net:
the issues
• Over-sharing by children
• Over-sharing by parents and other adults
• Lack of digital skills or interest in privacy settings
• Benign sharing by peers
• Malicious sharing by peers
• Social networks competition – lowering standards


EU Kids Online II study
25,142 children aged 9-16 in 25 countries

• 59% have a profile in a social network
• Only 43 % of them have set their profiles to “private”, 26%
- “Don’t know”
• 14% have posted their address or/and telephone number
• From 6 identifying features the average posted online are
2.8
• 30% of children who use the internet have communicated
in the past with someone they have not met face-to-face
before
• 15% of 11-16 year olds have received peer to peer “sexual
messages or images [meaning] talk about having sex or
images of people naked or having sex”
• 3% say they have sent or posted such messages

EU Kids Online II study
• 9% have experienced one or more of the three things
asked about within the frame of personal data misuse
(password theft and impersonation, data misuse, cheated).
• One in five (19%) 9-16 year olds across Europe say that
someone has acted in a hurtful or nasty way towards them
in the past 12 months.
• 55% of children bullied online say they were “very” or
“fairly” upset (32% bothered by seeing sexual images).
• Half (49%) of all children who use the internet use it in
their bedroom or other private room at home.
• 57% use internet via mobile phone (31%) or game console
(26%).


Pre-birth online identity

Study in UK: 23% of unborn children already have online presence.


Birth memories


Parent’s pride


Privacy of children in the net: consequences

• Inappropriate contacts with adults
• Broad dissemination of content
• Paedophiles’ interest – possible grooming
• Cyber-bullying
• Unwanted online identity


What to do

• Children and parents - education
• Teachers and professionals – tools and
methodologies
• Industry – self-regulation
• NGOs – all of the above


Regulation vs. self/co-regulation
• Court trials of minors for sexting?
• Snapchat – iPhone app developed by a Stanford University student –
spontaneous self-regulation


Main activities of the Bulgarian Safer
Internet Centre
• Hotline and Helpline operation
• Awareness raising events – round tables, conferences,
seminars, campaigns
• Development of awareness tools – printed materials,
online and offline educational games, quizzes,
competitions, TV clips, radio-spots
• Education in schools – for pupils, for parents and for
teachers
• Policy formation - lobbying for legislative measures
• Pressing the industry for self-regulation – associations of
ISPs, IT companies, games producers and distributors,
mobile operators


Public Council on Safer Internet
• Chairman – Mrs Galina Bankovska. Education, Deputy chair, Education,
Youth and Sports Commission, National Assembly
• Deputy-chairman - Mr. Kalin Kamenov, Deputy chairman,
State Agency for Child Protection
• Deputy-chairman - Mr. Assen Totin, member of the Board
, Association for Electronic Communications
• Member institutions and organizations:
• Ministry of Educationq Youth and Science
• State Agency for Child Protection
• Ministry of Interior
• Executive Agency for Electronic Communication Networks and Information Systems,
Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications
• Sofia Municipality
• Internet Society-Bulgaria
• Bulgarian Association for Information Technologies (BAIT)
• Vivacom
• Mobiltel
• GLOBUL
• Cisco Systems-Bulgaria
Foundation Law and Internet
• Аssociation Parents
• Association for Consumers Protection
• Partners-Bulgaria Foundation
• Bulgarian Federation for Electronic Sport
• Gender Education, Research and Technologies Foundation
• Microsoft-Bulgaria
• Center for the Study of Democracy #fpi12
www.metamorphosis.org.mk/fpi

Major achievements
• Broad stakeholders’ co-operation achieved - Public Council for Safer
Internet established including 22 major stakeholders.
• Public-private partnership results:
- In November 2011 the Convention of the Council of Europe against sexual
exploitation and sexual abuse of children ratified (draft bill prepared by SIC).
- New Child Protection draft bill provides for a register of sexual abusers of
children – SIC lobbied for 2 years; 5,000 supporters in a Facebook cause.
- Regular participation in working groups: on criteria of harmful for children
media content; on violence prevention strategy, on child abuse indicators
• Regular awareness and visibility campaigns with participation of private
business – mobile operators (on every SID more than 2,5 million SMSs sent)
and Microsoft
• Educational activities in schools – Virtual and Real Violence Prevention
educational course running in more than 90 schools in 4 cities
• Trainings of police officers and magistrates around the country
• Trainings of NGOs in Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Online tools - Play and Learn online version


Online tools – 3D Quest game for teens – Zone of Risk


Online tools
• Distance learning course for certification of
teenagers as online safety experts and peer
educators
• Together with Varna Municipality
• Piloted with 70 youth from Varna – including the
Youth Panel members
• Certification ceremony on February 9
• To be proposed to the Ministry of Education


Distance learning course


Offline tools – memory cards game


Offline tools – board game Flashboy in the Land of
Spammies


Offline tools – magic folding cube


Brochure for parents of first-graders with
a section on safer Internet


Brochure for parents:
“Top ten myths about the ‘scary‘ Internet”


Family e-Safety
Kit by INSAFE


Georgi.apostolov@online.bg

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