Negara Barat dianggap sebagai maju dalam hampir semua aspek bidang maka eloklah
kita contoh usaha baik mereka dan bukan meniru budaya & gaya hidup mereka yang
bertentangan dengan Islam juga bangsa kita..
Maaf kerna dalam bahasa Inggeris. Bagi Ibubapa yang mempunyai anak remaja
sila baca maklumat pada akhir email dan jika perlu cetak dan beri juga pada
anak2 anda. WALlahu'alam
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A Multi-Front Battle Against Web Predators - By Sam Diaz Washington Post
Staff Writer - Tuesday, July 31, 2007; Page D01
The tattoo was the giveaway.
The registered sex offender who had been lurking around social networking Web
sites offered few details about himself and posted no pictures to his online
profiles, a method of maintaining anonymity.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper wants to require parental
permission for children to join social networking sites. (Chuck Burton - AP)
But he had online friends who liked to post pictures. And when the tattoo
on a man in one of those pictures matched the sex offender's tattoo in a
criminal database, the last piece of the puzzle fell into place for John
Cardillo, the former New York cop whose company is working with the social
networking site MySpace to weed out predators.
"Criminals are impulsive; predators are impulsive," said Cardillo, chief
executive of Security Tech. "They trip up more than they think they do, if you
know what to look for. And we do."
Last week, 29,000 registered sex offenders were identified and removed from
MySpace. And this week, the Connecticut attorney general said he was looking
into a few cases of convicted sex offenders setting up profiles on Facebook,
another popular site. Those on the front lines of the fight against predators
on the Web, who use these sites to find young people and lure them to meet, say
the battle is complex and will take a combination of education, high-tech
security, old-fashioned investigative work, and cooperation among police,
lawmakers, schools, parents, teens and the sites.
"This isn't going to be something that we just solve," said Chad Harms, an
assistant professor at Iowa State University who serves on the advisory council
for the Iowa Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. "This is a relatively
new problem, and the light has only been shed on this issue in the last two to
three years. In terms of combating this problem, this will be a continuous
battle."
Facebook, like MySpace, has tools to allow users to customize privacy
settings. Facebook officials could not be reached yesterday to comment on the
investigation into sex offenders on its site or its efforts to police the site.
For months, Cardillo and his team have been comparing the various
sex-offender databases with the MySpace membership list. But looking for
matching names and addresses is only a small part of the work. He is also
looking for missteps that might reveal more information about the criminals.
It's an approach, he said, that keeps offenders on the run and forces them to
spend extra time to cover their online tracks. "For every minute that an
offender has to spend covering his tracks, that's a minute that he can't spend
stalking a child," Cardillo said.
Ten states, including Virginia, have passed laws that require sex offenders
to also register their e-mail addresses. MySpace executives support that
legislative effort but aren't willing to back a call for parental permission
for minors to join social networking sites. They say such a law would create a
false sense of security and could give predators an alternate way into the site.
"You can have an individual who is a predator who comes online in disguise,
gets verified using false information and now is seen as an accepted
individual," said Hemanshu Nigam, a former federal prosecutor who joined
MySpace as its chief security officer last year. "Now, he is more dangerous
than he ever was before."
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper disagrees. He views parental
permission as part of the solution and is pushing for lawmakers in his state --
and others across the country -- to pass legislation that requires it.
"If we require parental permission, there will be significantly fewer
children at risk because there will be fewer children on social networking
sites," he said.
"We believe this law will give parents another tool to protect their kids.
This helps to give parents a choice."
Parents, Nigam said, need tools, as do teachers and police officers. MySpace
has created guidebooks for teachers, law enforcement officers and parents that
highlight the site's safety features, such as the ability to mark a profile as
private and out of reach to casual onlookers. The company also has established
a law enforcement hotline, which is answered by real people around the clock.
Increasingly, it's the teens who are starting to protect themselves.
According to a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about
one-fourth of teenagers with online profiles post their full names on the Web.
But only 11 percent make profiles with full names visible to the public eye.
Most are marking their social networking profiles as private, accessible only
to people they know.
Nigam said MySpace is also working on a pilot program, code-named Zephyr,
that gives parents more tools to monitor usage, including a "lockdown" feature
that would prevent teens from misrepresenting their ages and gives them the
authority to have a profile deleted from the system.
"Parents are our first line of defense, and we want to empower them," Nigam
said.
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Dari pengalaman sendiri. Ramai remaja meletakkan maklumat peribadi mereka
secara terperinci ..berikut adalah beberapa maklumat tambahan.. semoga Ibu Bapa
mendidik anak akan bahaya di Internet. terlalu banyak kes culik & rogol,
bertemu & rogol, culik, peras ugut dsbnya hanya kerana kesalahan mangsa sendiri
- Meletakkan nama penuh sepertimana dalam IC
- meletakkan tarikh lahir
- meletakkan alamat rumah, no telefon
- meletakkan gambar2 persendirian untuk tatapan awam (di dalam friendster,
multiply dan juga laman web yang hampir serupa ada settings yang membolehkan
gambar2 atau maklumat peribadi hanya boleh di tatapi oleh saudara, kawan yang
rapat)
- meletakkan gambar tanpa memakai tudung (walaupun sebenarnya pemilik memakai
tudung @ menutup aurat)
- meletakkan gambar mendedahkan aurat, seksi dsbnya
- meletakkan gambar bersama tunang, kekasih, kenalan dengan aksi yang
kononnya romantik, intim dan sebab2 jahil yang lain
- terlalu memberi banyak maklumat diri, minat dsbnya di dalam profile
Awasi dan Didiklah anak kita, dengan Islam dengan kasih sayang supaya
kehendak mereka untuk berkawan dapat ditapis, sekurang-kurangnya mereka bijak
dan tahu apa yang baik dan buruk, tidak tertipu dengan kata-kata manis, pujian
dsbnya dari orang2 yang tidak bertanggung jawab yang kita tidak kenali
indentiti sebenar mereka.
Kebanyakan remaja/anak kita Naive, mereka tidak tahu apa sebenar yang mereka
buat dan implikasinya, banyak yang mengikut kawan atau terikut-ikut dengan
budaya dan trend
Teens and Privacy 66% of teens who have profiles say their profile is
not visible to all Internet users.
46% of teens whose profiles can be accessed by anyone say they give false
information on their profiles, sometimes to protect themselves.
49% of social network users say they use the sites to make friends.
23% of teens who have been contacted by a stranger online say they felt
scared or uncomfortable because of the encounter. (That translates to 7 percent
of all online teens.)
SOURCE: Pew Internet & American Life Project
What Teens Post On Web Profiles · 82% include their first name.
· 79% post photos of themselves.
· 66% include photos of their friends.
· 61% include the name of their city.
· 49% include the name of their school.
· 40% have included an instant-message screen name.
· 40% stream audio to the profile.
· 39% link to a blog.
· 29% include an e-mail address.
· 29% included their last name.
· 29% post videos.
· 2% include a cellphone number.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project
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