Examples Of Risk Possible Consequences

Risk Possible Consequences

1) Strangers being able to see personal information through social media or chat software, E.G Facebook, Messenger, Skype.

2) Downloading music or computer games without having paid for them. This is illegal.

3) Children have access to parents, carers or other adults unsupervised or unauthorised debit or credit cards, or bank account details. 1) Name, Address, Mobile & Telephone used by the wrong person and then could be used for identity theft or a stranger who may use those details to harm somebody.

2) This can lead to the high court’s forcing Internet Service Provider’s to hand over personal details of customers who have been noted down as downloading things illegally. These users may then face a legal action

2) Physical, Emotional and verbal bullying, including uploading content to online profiles such as Facebook or Twitter that may cause embarrassment to other people.

3) Being exposed to premium rate services available through mobile devices. 1) Children that may come into contact with people they don’t know for example a stranger or a paedophile that may pretend to be a child and to make up stories that they have the same interests as this child to lure them in. This is known as grooming.

2) Any such form of bullying can lead to a victim feeling many potential effects of isolation, having low-self-confidence and esteem, shyness and this can also lead to having depression which can then lead to possible suicide. This will then have a possible effect on the child or young person’s parents and peers.

3) Children can be easily caught out by a premium rate subscription service from a buying ring-tone or other mobile phone content.

Section 7.2 *

Describe ways of reducing risk to children and young people from Social Networking, Internet Use, Buying Online, Using a Mobile

Internet Use 1) When children are using the internet to monitor them and to even make sure the screen can be seen by parents or adults when in use so we can see what the children are doing and you can also check the children’s search history on a regular basis also making sure that filters are on at all times.

2) To use the internet browser parent control, this can filter out most (not all) inappropriate websites and content. If there was a website that gets past the blockage. Then the parents have that choice for individual websites to be blocked.

Buying Online 1) No children or young person should be allowed to buy or order things from online. This can then prevent any details such as debit or credit card details given to the wrong person.

2) To set up an Anti-Virus and Firewall software that can prevent hackers or malicious programs into a computer and then stealing personal information such as debit or credit cards or