How to be legal on the Internet: new educational guides of the AEPD
The Spanish Agency for Data Protection AEPD has developed two new guides to avoid committing cybercrime on the Internet or be a victim of them. Be legal on the internet aimed at young people, and Teach them to be legal on the internet, for parents and teachers are the new educational guides with which the AEPD aims to avoid so much that the 8 million schoolchildren can commit a crime as to favor the commission of the same by third parties with their own behavior and without being aware of it .
These educational guides on the legal use of Internet They intend to serve as support to raise awareness about the serious consequences that certain behaviors can have when they are carried out through the Internet. To achieve this, practical examples are used and details how improper use of personal information can be a crime and not just an infraction of data protection regulations, something that is often unknown.
To avoid that the 8 million students enrolled at this moment in Spain can commit a difficult damage to repair or a cybercrime or be victims of any of these crimes, is the objective of the AEPD.
How to be legal on the Internet: a guide for young people
Being well informed is the best way to prevent the safety of young people on the Internet. For this reason, the Spanish Agency for Data Protection makes special emphasis on ending the ignorance or false sense of impunity or anonymity that many young people have when carrying out certain online behaviors, especially for the consequences they can have for them and third parties as family and friends.
Be legal on the internet is the first guide for young people where fundamental aspects such as the importance of the personal data that is shared and who can see them, the consequences of losing the mobile or forgetting to close the session in a social network or the implications are treated. to forward a video in which other people appear, be they classmates or teachers.
Within the eight cards, there is also a section of reflection on how they would feel if, for example, a video was broadcast in which they appear changing clothes, details of their illness in a social network, or received threats to facilitate bank details of their relatives.
Cyberbullying, cyberbaiting, grooming and sexting are figures that could become crimes, and that the files also try to offer advice to avoid being subject to these behaviors or become a participant in them. And, in any case, it highlights the importance of minors not allowing anyone to harass them, not participating in the harassment of other people, or consenting to harass third parties.
Teach them to be legal on the Internet
Teach them to be legal on the internet It is the second guide that is aimed at family members, teachers and people close to children to provide guidance for their education. And is that according to the AEPD continues to grow the number of crimes committed by minors through the Internet, and especially those linked to the use of personal information. According to a study by the European Commission, 50% of children under 12 have a profile in social networks and 4 out of 10 have been involved in situations of risk on the Internet. In this line, a study of the University of Oviedo, conducted with young people between 11 and 19 years, concludes that 90% "commits, suffers or knows" cases of cyberbullying
More communication channels for families and teachers
The AEPD has made available to families, teachers and minors a communication system for consultations and advice:
1. Email ([email protected])
2. Specific telephone number (901 233 144)
3. WhatsApp (616 172 204)
Marisol Nuevo Espín
