Parental Control and Discretion in viewing these Videos, chilling and gruesome violence-the Genocide of the Tamils by the Sri Lanka Forces
The Threat of internet to children is not to be underestimated.
Now we have Children sharing vital personal information of themselves and Parent‘s Credit card details on the net..
This information is highly dangerous as the potential kidnappers can evaluate their victims.
And the same report also mentions that Bangalore logs 28%(second in India,first being Bombay with 40%) of Browsing adult contents.
Please follow the Links below for details.
The tendency of parents to substitute money and gadgets for their children is one of the reasons.
With Double income parents on the rise, parents spend little time with children.
To assuage their guilt over not finding time to spend with children, they place money and gadgets at the disposal of vulnerable children.
Parents must choose what is more important in their Life children’s welfare or economic prosperity to meet unwanted and addictive items and habits.
Shifting blame to internet Technology and changing world is only a feeble attempt of refusing to face the reality of not caring the children.
Children seek expression and comfort in the internet which has been denied to them at Home.
Parents are well advised to take care before it becomes too late.
Some technical help is provided by technology to combat this problem.
Even this has become suspect.
Read this as well.
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A Federal class action suit filed by Rosen, Bien & Galvin, out of San Francisco alleges that McAfee uses deceptive techniques to “trick” users into handing their credit card information to a third party partner.
After entering the information, previously undisclosed charges charges appear on the user’s credit bill. The suit alleges that when the user attempts to contact the third party to cancel the “service” they receive a recording that states it “does not offer cancellation or subscription services
However one must remember that this is only a temporary one and lasting solution is attention to children.
You track and lock the computer or sites.
What next?
Children are going to agree with you and stop these activities?
Think.
McAfee commissioned Synovate, to conduct a comprehensive research titled ‘How safe are Indian kids online?’ across 10 cities- New Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Ludhiana, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Cochin, covering 500 children and 496 parents. Following are key highlights of the revelations from this survey: (Please refer to Annexure 1 for a detailed analysis of the survey)
· 62% of all polled kids have shared personal information online.
· 58% kids share their home addresses on the internet.
· 39% of all polled kids do not tell their parents about these online activities
· 12% of all polled kids had been victims of some kind of cyber threat
-12% share parent’s credit card details…..
In the context of these newfound online threats, McAfee Family Protection offers a host of essential features to enable Indian families in monitoring their children’s online activities:
· Age-Appropriate Settings – Settings are customized according to age-groups;
· Filtering for Music and Online Games –Parents can decide what rating of content children have access to. Types of filtering include:
o Songs with explicit lyrics from iTunes
o Access to online gaming sites
o Viewing of objectionable videos on YouTube
· Encrypted website blocking blocks teens from accessing proxy sites so they cannot try to bypass content filters;
· Program blocking enables parents to block any program, including file sharing networks which can lead to malware infections on PCs;
· Instant messaging monitoring enables parents to monitor and record complete instant message conversations to alert them of improper dialogue with strangers;
· Time limits help families manage the amount of time their children spend online: families are able to set the day and/or time for when their child can access the Internet;
· Email blocking pre-approves email accounts that a child is able to access and blocks emails from unknown sources;
· Instant email alerts can be sent to parents when access to objectionable material is attempted;
· Social network filtering records all social network postings that contain profanity and posts that include confidential information that has been predetermined by parents–such as a home address, phone, school name, etc
McAfee Family Protection incorporates technology from McAfee® Safe Eyes® software, which has won the following awards:
Ranked #1 in parental control programs in the European Commission Report , earning the highest overall score of 29 filtering products
· The National Parenting Center’s 2011 Seal of Approval two years in a row
· Winner of PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award two years in a row
· Rated #1 in Independent Testing of 11 Leading Products
· Outstanding Score of 4.5 out of 5 by MacFan Magazine
For additional information on where to purchase McAfee Family Protection, please visit
You land your self in unwanted situations by socializing and being yummy on the internet..
Being expressive ,gregarious and extrovert is different from being brash and reckless.
I feel parents and value systems and ‘freedom’ is responsible.
Old fashioned parental control, though may sound archaic , may save
children.
Life and Safety precedes Freedom of Expression( do not misread;this applies to this case)
Story:
So, Jessi had haters. A few days ago, she posted this YouTube video calling them out, issuing such threats as “If you can’t stop hating, you know what? I’ll pop a glock in your mouth and make a brain slushy.” Ha ha. Unfortunately for everyone involved, someone posted it to the Internet‘s scariest hive mind: 4Chan.org‘s notorious /b/ message board, and Tumblr.
The Internet started picking on Jessi Slaughter relentlessly. But it was more than just mocking: People started circulating Jessi’s real name, phone number, address and links to all her social networking accounts. Someone prank calledher. According to Encyclopedia Dramatica, pranksters spammed her Facebook and MySpace accounts, had pizzas delivered to her house and were considering sending call girls off Craigslist to the address. (Encyclopedia Dramatica currently has a three part section on “How to troll” Jessi: 1) “There are pics of her holding her boobs” 2) “Tell her to kill herself” 3) “Tell her dad that we are going to beat her up.”) Slaughter’s information and videos also shot through tumblr, aided by the blogging platform’s reblogging system.
Eventually, Jessi’s dad filmed himself yelling at the camera. Boing Boing picked up the video and a meme was born. Actually, the video’s so good it spawned at least three different memes: “You dun Goofed,” “Consequences will never be the same” and “Cyberpolice.”
1. What are your kids doing on the Internet? Normally, we find fears about kids on the Internet the product of technophobic hysteria. But this case is a very good argument for why parents should at least be vaguely aware of what their kids are up to on the Internet. Is your 11 year-old girl embroiled in an underage sex scandal with the lead singer of a popular emo band? Is she threatening to shoot people on YouTube videos? Maybe now is the time to invest in good parental control software before she becomes a meme.
2. Tumblr is becoming a home for trolls. Tumblr was originally the good-natured domain of hip New York creatives. It was, on balance, a creative force on the Internet. But the role it played in trolling Jessi Slaughter shows that Tumblr is developing a nasty side as well. Tumblr founder David Karp better get on this before Tumblr becomes 4chan with a slick minimalist interface.
3. Don’t pick on 11 year-old girls. Seriously. No matter how dumb they seem—no matter how much they might seem to deserve it—they are, at the end of the day, 11 year-old girls. You wouldn’t make an 11 year-old girl cry in real life; why do it on the Internet?
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