IAMAI Online Safety for Teens 17 Sep

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Addressing… Security Online - Students - Chandigarh By: Preeti Desai President 17th Sep 2005

Rules for your Online Safety: 

Rules for your Online Safety The Internet is a fun way to "meet" new friends, get information, and learn about the world. It is important that you use caution and avoid potential problems so you can safely enjoy being online. Some tips to avoid such problems.

Rules for your Online Safety: 

Rules for your Online Safety Hold on tight to your PII PII can be defined as "as data which can be used to identify or contact a person uniquely and reliably, including but not limited to name, address, telephone number, and e-mail address." Maintain your privacy - Never give your full name, address, phone number or any private information to anyone you don't know personally. They are more likely to misuse the information.

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Rules for your Online Safety Trust web sites with easy-to-find privacy policies explaining exactly what information, if any, is collected, how it's used, whether it is shared with others and what control you have over your personal information. Never give out information to any web site that doesn't have a privacy policy as you have no idea what they might do with your information.  It's not just your privacy and safety alone, you should be careful about posting others information on a public forum too can put your family & friends in some jeopardy.

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Rules for your Online Safety Protect your passwords - Never give out your password to anyone for any reason! Whenever you create user names or screen names, don't use aliases that reveal you’re your real name, age, or gender. If you think someone knows your password, change it. Changing your passwords from time to time reduces the risk that someone else might successfully impersonate you online. If you get an email that looks like it's from your Internet Service Provider or someone else with whom you have an account asking to confirm your password, don't respond until you've checked with the company directly.

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Rules for your Online Safety Uncomfortable and harassed - It isn't your fault if you get a message that is mean or in any way makes you feel uncomfortable. Instead, show the message to your parents, or a trusted adult, to see if there is anything you can do to make it stop. Sending a response often just encourages the person to send more.

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Rules for your Online Safety Don't send scanned pictures of yourself or your family / friends to anyone. Be careful about posting family photos on Web sites. Use a photo-sharing site that offers password or other security protection hence your photographs aren’t visible to the public, and you can even choose the specific albums that you want to allow your friends and family to view.

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Rules for your Online Safety Choose safe sites complementing your maturity and understanding - Do not enter sites sexual in nature, which contain violent or hateful material, or which advocate the use of weapons or harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco, or illegal drugs. Stop right away if you see or read something on a Web site that is upsetting or offensive to you. Some sites are not meant for your age group or your understanding and you might have accidentally reached that site through a hyperlink.

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Rules for your Online Safety Reading it online is not necessarily true? Knowing how to use and search on the Internet is one thing, however being able to attach credibility and understand what you find is something else. It’s critical to enhance your thinking skills so you can analyze, distinguish between fact, opinion, rumors, and lies and make effective use of the material you find.

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Rules for your Online Safety Be extremely careful to get together with strangers you meet online Skepticism helps - The biggest danger to your safety of getting together with someone you meet online is you will never know whether they are what they say they are. If you feel it’s appropriate to meet with someone, discuss it with your friends, family or parents. Meet in a public place like a coffee shop or mall that you are familiar and comfortable with, and never go alone.

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Rules for your Online Safety Set rules for chat-room chatter. Set rules of how to treat strangers in a chat room just like you would treat them on the street. Since a chat room is open to everyone, it's not a good place to provide your address, financial information, or other personal information that you wouldn't want strangers to see. Walk out of a chat room immediately if you encounter inappropriate behavior. There is no way of verifying a persons profile and hence what ever they claim may not be true. You should not use an online avatar or alias that reveal your real name, age, or address? For example, a 16 year-old girl named Sana Kaul from Delhi, should not choose an online identity like: "Sana10," or "Sanakaul," or "SanaDelhi."

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Rules for your Online Safety Spam: Mail You Would Rather Not Get One way that people invade your privacy is to send you "spam" otherwise known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" or "junk mail."  Most of this mail is designed to try to get you to buy something or to get you to visit a web site which, often, is a site that contains sexually explicit material called "porno spam". In general, its best not to respond to spam or to follow any links or purchase any products advertised in such mail. Some email packages and online services offer filtering programs that allow only messages from users or about services you've approved in advance.

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Rules for your Online Safety File-sharing Risks Its important to be cautious in opening email attachments from strangers as well as family and friends. Some of the risks associated with using file-sharing programs include: Computer Security – Opening attachments creates a risk that viruses or other malignant code could be spread to your computer over the network. Copyrighted content & Legal Risks - A lot of material posted on the Internet is copyrighted, which means that it might be illegal to reprint or post the material without permission. You do not have the right to re-post or distribute copyrighted graphics, music, videos, and text from Web sites without permission. This includes giving copies of the material to friends. There are some conditions where it is OK to use copyrighted material as part of a student paper or other project.

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Thank you Preeti Desai President INTERNET AND MOBILE ASSOCIATION OF INDIA 1st floor, Mahalaxmi Engineering Estate, L. J. Road No.1, Mahim (West), Mumbai 400 016 Tel: 24449144 Fax: 24455346 M: 9821154961 Email:preeti@ioaindia.com