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72% of all parents are concerned that other people could locate their child through their mobile phone using location based services . Young people are becoming more aware of privacy settings on social networking sites
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72% of all parents are concerned that other people could locate their child through their mobile phone using location based services
Young people are becoming more aware of privacy settings on social networking sites • 69% of 12-15 year olds say that their social networking site can only be seen by friends/family
25% of 12-15 year olds do not make any checks when visiting new websites • 66% say they make some kind of checkeg: padlocks, how up to date the information is, asking whether other people have visited it, or if it is a known brand
45% of parents say they have internet controls or filtering software in place • For the rest… • 13% say they did not know such things were possible; • 41% say it is because they usually supervise the child online; • and 66% of parents of 12-15s say they trust their child.
The top 10 websites visited by 6-11 year olds are… Google Google Search MSN/WindowsLive/Bing BBC Windows Live Messenger Facebook Yahoo! YouTube eBay Disney Online
8% of people aged between 9 and 19 have met someone face-to-face who they first met online
60% of 11-16 year olds say they have been bullied… • 10% for more than a year • 16% every day • 5% two or three times a week
89% of parents thought cyberbullying was just as serious as other types of bullying
54% of parents had not talked to their children about how to protect themselves from cyberbullying
33% of people aged between 9 and 19 have received unwanted sexual comments online
Every day BT blocks 35,000 attempts to access child pornography
16% of parents think their child has seen pornography on the internet • 57% of young people who go online at least once a week have come into contact with pornography
26% of parents can check web history • 65% of young people can clear web history
1% of parents think their children are blogging • 33% of young people use blogs • 67% of parents do not know what a blog is
76% of parents do not have rules about what their children do on the computer
Almost a quarter of parents said they would allow their child of 10 or under to go on the internet unsupervised at home
38% of parents said they had or would allow children 10 or under to have a mobile phone. • 10% of parents said they had or would allow their child of eight or under to have a mobile phone.
One in five children have said they have been bullied online or by phone.