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Social Media Safety�for Parents

Presented by:

Deputy Bart Fiore

Lake County Sheriff’s Office

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Social Media Safety�for Students

Presented by:

Deputy Bart Fiore

Lake County Sheriff’s Office

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Types of Social Media

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Types of Social Media

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CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT (COPPA)

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) specifically aims to protect the privacy of children under the age of 13 by requesting parental consent for the collection or use of any personal information of the users. The Act took effect in April 2000 and was revised in 2013. The Act was passed in response to a growing awareness of Internet marketing techniques that targeted children and collected their personal information from websites without any parental notification. The Act applies to commercial websites and online services that are directed at children.

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Benefits of Social Media

  • 1. Communication with friends and family members; can comment on life events

  • 2. Ways to update on one’s life without a phone call or a letter

  • 3. Can contact people they haven’t talked to or heard from in awhile

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Benefits of Social Media

  • 4. Allows for self expression
    • Art, music and political ideas

  • 5. Helps develop self-identity (Branding)

  • 6. Useful as a classroom tool

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Using Social Media Safely

  • 1. Keep usernames and passwords private and don’t tell them to anyone

  • 2. Never post anything you would not want your parents to hear or see

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Using Social Media Safely

  • 3. Things are not permanently deleted

  • 4. Only communicate with people you know and trust and know personally

  • 5. Locate and know privacy settings

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Risks/Dangers of Social Media

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Risks/Dangers of Social Media

  • Cyber bullying
  • Geolocation
  • Inappropriate content
  • Sexting
  • Sextortion
  • Online Predators
  • Breaking Laws

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Risks/Dangers of Social Media

  • Cyber bullying
  • Geolocation
  • Inappropriate content
  • Online Predators
  • Breaking Laws

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Cyberbullying�720 ILCS 5/26.5-3�Harassment through electronic communications

A person commits harassment through electronic communications when he or she uses electronic communication for any of the following purposes:

Making any comment, request, suggestion or proposal which is obscene with an intent to offend; Threatening injury to the person or to the property of the person to whom an electronic communication is directed or to any of his or her family or household members.

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Cyber Stalking Law�720 ILCS 5/12-7.5

(a) A person commits cyberstalking when he or she engages in a course of conduct using electronic communication directed at a specific person, and he or she knows or should know that would cause a reasonable person to:

(1) fear for his or her safety or the safety of a third person; or

(2) suffer other emotional distress.

(a-3) A person commits cyberstalking when he or she, knowingly and without lawful justification, on at least 2 separate occasions, harasses another person through the use of electronic communication and:

(1) at any time transmits a threat of immediate or future bodily harm

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False Personation�720 ILCS 5/17-2

(2.5) A person commits a false personation when he or she knowingly and falsely represents himself or herself to be:

(A) another actual person and does an act in such assumed character with intent to intimidate, threaten, injure, defraud, or to obtain a benefit from another; or

(B) a representative of an actual person or organization and does an act in such false capacity with intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another.

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Sextortion�720 ILCS 5/11-9.1�Sexual Exploration of a child

(a-5) A person commits sexual exploitation of a child who knowingly entices, coerces, or persuades a child to remove the child's clothing for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification of the person or the child, or both.

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Amanda Todd

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Parent’s�Responsibility

  • - Check your child’s devices

  • - Know what they are doing online

  • - Talk to them about the dangers of being online and social media

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Free Apps to Hide �Pictures & Videos

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How the Calculator�Application Works

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Software�Monitoring

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The Golden Ticket

  • Allow your child to tell you when

something bad has happened

  • Work through it with your child

  • Help find a solution

  • “Reduced Sentence”

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Make a Police Report

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How to Get Informed

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Questions �or �Comments

Deputy Bart Fiore – Lake County Sheriff’s Office – Community Engagement School Resource Team