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Children under the age of 16 are regularly visiting websites that have been prohibited by their parents, divulge personal details to strangers, and meet up with people they met online, according to research published today.
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Online identity firm Garlik commissioned research among 500 children aged 8-15 and 500 parents across the UK. Its findings suggest that 40 per cent of children regularly visit websites that are prohibited by their parents. Many divulge personal details without parental consent, including full name (30 per cent), home address (12 per cent), mobile number (20 per cent), home telephone number (10 per cent), school details (46 per cent), and family photos (9 per cent).
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Despite 90 per cent of parents monitoring their offspring's internet activities, more than half of the 8-15 year-olds questioned admitted to surfing the internet when their parents didn't know, often late at night.
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Garlik CEO Tom Ilube said: "Our research is a shocking wake-up call to all parents in the UK to sit down with their children and talk about how to keep safe online. The web is a wonderful place to explore but young people continue to make themselves vulnerable by not applying the same caution online as they would in person."
Garlik's top tips for parents
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Keep internet-connected computers in a central and open location, particularly for younger children.
Sit down and talk to your children about their online activity. You should know everyone on your children's contact list.
For younger kids, make sure you know all their passwords. Don't intrude, but let them know that you know, just in case.
Tell your children not to provide personal details online. No full names, addresses, or telephone numbers.
Devise a code of conduct - list of internet rules - that you and your children agree to sign up to
Are you under 18? Do you regularly visit "Forbidden sites"?
Secondly - how many of you would know how to bypass or tun off internet security, restricting, filtering and moniroing software?[/quote]
I could do all of that when I was 13. I can still do it now. And if my parents had all my paswords, and knew every place I was going, I'd be rightfully screwed. Bigtime.
Until about a month ago, I knew approximately 30 out of the 300+ people on my contact list. Now I still only know about 30 of the 100+ people on my contact list irl.
Although I can't say I've surfed when my parents are asleep without their consent (despite the fact I'm regularly up that late at night using the interbutts). I'm just usually home alone.
Anyone familiar with 4chan? If so, are you familiar with /b/(tards)?
i don't really know why those kids can go there or they visit those site!! when i first visited those site i was 18+. i dont have any idea why should we visit these site? for mental freshness or for destroy mentality?
i think if we need em we should go through physically !! cuz it just wasting time!! and parents should stop their child for doing this!! and every parents should aware of this!!
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