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Recommendations and Good Practices for the
SAFE USE OF THE INTERNET
FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
1st Edition
Limits to cyberspace
The Internet is nowadays a tool that can connect us with the world in just a few
seconds. We can talk with friends from the other side of the world, pay bills, work,
exchange experiences, and learn. In short, the computer worldwide network has
essentially changed people’s everyday life and has deeply transformed the society by
bringing technology to our daily routine.
Since the Internet is, in many aspects, still a novelty, there are no rules and specific
laws to restrain crimes practiced through computers.
The are financial frauds, viruses, theft of passwords, crimes against the honor, slander,
defamation, libel, cyberbullying (humiliation of people by means of postings on the
Internet) and, perhaps the most worrying crime, pedophilia – which entices our children.
Despite the creation of specialized police stations, it is important for all users of the
Internet to know that there are safer ways to use worldwide network by adopting
some practical measures. This is the purpose of this First Reader – which teaches
simple measures that will allow the whole family to use the computer safely, without
running unnecessary risks.
Luiz Flávio Borges D’Urso
President of OAB SP
Recommendations and good practices for the
SAFE USE OF THE INTERNET
FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY
1st edition - 2010
Prepared by:
Technical File
This first reader is the result of the working group of the
Committee on High Technology Crimes of the Brazilian Bar Association
[Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil], São Paulo Chapter, in partnership with
Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie.
Work Coordination:
Coriolano A. de Almeida Camargo Santos, Juliana Abrusio e Renato Opice Blum.
Legal Content:
Carla Rahal Benedetti, Coriolano Aurélio de Almeida Camargo Santos, Juliana
Abrusio, Luiz José Moreira Salata, Renato Opice Blum, Vera Kaiser Sanches Kerr,
Renato Leite Monteiro, Victor Eduardo Momessa da Costa Jardim.
Psycho-pedagogical Content:
Sônia Makaron, Psychoanalyst and Director of Jornal Jovem.
Students of the Law School of
Mackenzie Presbyterian University:
Ana Paula Manente Cottet, Carolina Ignacio de Souza Franco,
Fernando de Pinho Barreira, Rafael de Paula Teixeira, Tatiana Bauer.
Committee of High Technology Crimes of OAB SP
OAB/SP Committee on High Technology Crimes:
President: Coriolano A. Almeida Camargo;
Vice President: Marco Aurélio Florêncio Filho
OAB/SP:
President: Luiz Flávio Borges D´Urso
Vice President: Marcos da Costa
[Mackenzie Presbiterian University]
Grammatical Review:
Roberto Cassiano
Translator:
Esther Galvão
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Marcelo Mokrejs | www.mokrejs.com
Artwork:
Felipe Domeniconi
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Support:
Academic Dean:
Ademar Pereira
Further Study Dean:
Helena Bonito Couto Pereira
Research and Graduate Program Dean:
Sandra Maria Dotto Stump
Law School Principal:
Nuncio Theophilo Neto
Law School Vice Principal:
José Francisco Siqueira Neto
Coordinator of Graduate Program in Digital and Telecommunication
Law:
Roque Theophilo Junior
Coordination of the Law Course – Undergraduate Program:
Fabiano Dolenc Del Masso
Professor of Law in Electronic Means:
Juliana Abrusio
Laboratório de Estudos em Ética nos Meios Eletrônicos
©2010. All rights reserved.
Partial or integral reproduction without the authors’ prior authorization is prohibited.
Summary
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Freedom of Expression vs.
Violation of Someone Else’s
Right
Crimes on the Internet
Crimes of prejudice against
race or color
Crimes against Copyrights
Child Pornography
Cyberbullying
Civil responsibility of
parents and school
How to denounce
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Privacy on the Internet
Dicas
Tips to use the Internet
safely
Conclusion
Pense
Think about it...
Consider what can be shared, public and openly,
about your life, without demanding trust and secret.
Privacy on the Internet
Be careful of your privacy and intimacy when using the Internet! Since the 90’s, by virtue of
the free spread of information on the network, the right to privacy and intimacy has been
facing increasingly new challenges.
Intimacy and privacy, along with other rights, are considered each citizen’s fundamental
guarantees granted by the Federal Constitution of 1988, our major law, which ensures every
individual the certainty of being able to safeguard his/her privacy.
Item X, of art. 5 of the FC/88 guarantees that:
Privacy and private life, honor and image of persons are inviolable, and the right to
compensation for property or moral damages resulting from their violation is ensured.
It happens that, unfortunately, our personal data may be missused through information
posted on several content websites, such as Orkut, Flicker, Twitter, Youtube, Bloggers and
others. Thus, it is advisable not to make any information available to unknown people, or to
those who are not reliable, that reveal your personal habits, such as: mentioning the name
of the school where you study, English course you attend, your home address, trips you have
already made or will make, etc., since all this may be used in a malicious or even criminal way.
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The careless use of the Internet, which can be
easily accessed by anyone, and which has
great dissemination power, increases the
possibility that information about your life is
disrespected, distorted or altered.
Freedom of Expression vs.
Violation of Someone
Else’s Right
The Bill of Rights, in its article 19 provides that “everyone is entitled to freedom of opinion and
expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference, and to seek, receive
and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”.
Brazil adhered to the Bill of Rights, and expresses this adhesion in our Constitution, in its
article 5, item IV: “The expression of thought is free , and anonymity is forbidden”, as well as in
item IX: “the expression of intellectual, artistic, scientific and communications activities is free,
irrespective of censorship or license”.
But in face of this freedom, we cannot refrain from asking the following questions: Is the
freedom of expression on the Internet not subject to any limit or control at all? Can any
information be posted, including on someone else’s life on an unlimited basis, even to the
point of offending the other?
Freedom of expression, like any other fundamental right, is not absolute. It has limits! It shall
not be an excuse or pretext to incite violence, offend anybody else’s honor, thereby frontally
violating the other’s fundamental rights equally protected by the Constitution.
The limit of your freedom to express whatever you think is not to offend others!
The challenge between freedom of expression and violation of anybody else’s right is
a difficult path to follow in order to reach balance, namely, expressing yourself freely by
respecting the other person’s right. In case that does not occur, this type of conduct is
subject to sanction, because, unlike many people wrongly sustain, the Internet is definitely
not a “lawless land”, as the courts all over the world have been revealing.
It is important to remember: The Federal Constitution of Brazil (CF/88) protects the
individual’s honor, grants the victim the right to reply a libel and prohibits anonymity.
Furthermore, be aware, if you offend someone, including by the Internet, you may be
required to pay indemnity for pain and suffering. (Art. 5, IV, V and X, and art. 220, §1 of CF/88).
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The good news is that most Internet access providers
keep records of most users’ accesses. Therefore, (this
has to be quite clear!) everything made through
electronic means can be recorded in order to
enable identifying who is acting behind a
computer screen.
Crimes on the Internet
Unfortunately, we have verified that, together with the advantages brought
by the Internet, this amazing means of communication has also been used to
commit crimes. The technologic advance has caused the increase of ordinary
crimes (theft, embezzlement, menace, extortion, child pornography etc.),
thus enabling virtual misdemeanors to grow at the same proportion as this
technologic advance.
It is important to know that in most cases the legislation in effect can be applied
to electronic crimes. Besides, it is perfectly possible to find out the authorship
of crimes practiced through electronic means. Thinking that hiding behind
a computer screen guarantees impunity is a false belief. Both the Brazilian
Enforcement Authorities and the Judicial Branch have already disclosed several
crimes which resulted in the offenders’ conviction.
Therefore, it is important to make it quite clear that certain conducts,
even when carried out through the Internet, may be considered
crimes. Learn how to identify, understand the law provisions, and
become informed of the rights you are granted and how to protect
yourself. Also learn how to denounce.
VOCÊ SABIA?
There is a Police Station specialized on electronic crimes
in São Paulo:
4th Police Station of DIG/DEIC
Civil Police- 4th Police Station for Misdemeanors Committed
through Electronic Means
Av. Zack Narchi,152 - Carandiru, São Paulo/SP
Phone No.: (11) 2221-7030
E-mail: [email protected]
Besides, the following Brazilian cities do also have a police station
specialized on electronic crimes: Rio de Janeiro, Vitória, Goiânia,
Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Porto Alegre e Brasília.
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According to Cert.br (Center of Studies, Response and Treatment of
Security Incidents in Brazil), until June 2010, 61,147 cyber incidents
had been reported. In 2009, this figure reached 358,343, against
222,528 in 2008.
The following stories are fictitious, but we ask: have you ever witnessed or experienced cases like this?
Crimes of prejudice against race or color
Pedro and his virtual friends
Pedro, 18 years old, as most young people of his age, is a constant user of the relationship
communities on the Internet.
He has older friends and likes to take part in relationship websites and
create communities where he may not only express but also share
his “radical” ideas. Sometimes he even pretends to be someone
else, hiding his real identity. It happens that his ideas have a
prejudiced nature as well as racial and sexual intolerance.
Pedro is not quite sure about what he says on the
Internet, but he started posting malicious and racial
comments on these communities, just for fun. It
happens that, after including some virtual friends
in his communities he eventually created, without
noticing it, a huge group of people who take
prejudiced postures seriously, and manifest such
postures by instigating each other.
Pedro’s parents don’t know anything about this!
They are just impressed with their son’s skills
to use the Internet. Since they are not much
knowledgeable about technology, they do not
try to get information about the websites and
communities in which their son participates,
or learn anything about his virtual friendships.
They are undisturbed because Pedro is always at
home...
But actually, the fact is that Pedro has exceeded the
limits of freedom of expression by using offensive,
humiliating and racist terms to refer to different races,
religions etc. once he believes that the Internet is a real
“lawless land”.
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What does the law
provide on this case?
• When posting discriminatory comments, Pedro and his
colleagues of the virtual community incur in the crime of
defamation due to prejudice, also called discriminatory
defamation (art. 140, § 3 of the Penal Code). Punishment:
imprisonment from one (01) to three (03) years and fine.
• When inciting and inducing discrimination and
prejudice through the virtual community, Pedro also
commits the crime provided in art. 20 of Act 7,716/
1989 (which deals with crimes originated by prejudice
against race or color). Punishment: imprisonment
from two (02) to five (04) years and fine.
• Further, under art. 5, XLII, of the Federal Constitution,
“the practice of racism is a non-bailable crime,
with no limitation, subject to the punishment of
imprisonment, according to the law”.
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• All this by considering also that law provides that
punishment shall be increased by 1/3 whenever
a means that facilitates the offense disclosure is
used, such as it is the case of the Internet (art.
141, III, of the Penal Code).
• If Pedro were a minor, he would be held liable
for having committed the offense (art. 103 of
the Statute of the Child and the Adolescent),
and his parents could be civilly liable for the
unlawful acts committed by their son (art. 932,
I of the Civil Code), and a fine for compensation
to be settled in court is applied to this case.
• Furthermore, by pretending to be somebody
else, Pedro can be held liable for the crime
of “false identity”, under art. 307 of the Penal
Code, if such conduct has been practiced
to take advantage or to harm somebody
else. The punishment for this crime is
imprisonment from three months to one
year or fine, if the fact does not constitute
element of bigger crime.
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Crimes against
Copyrights
Exchange of
music and
videos through
the Internet
João greatly enjoys audio and video, and is a frequent
user of the Internet, from where he copies music,
films and games, with no regards to copyrights of the
works he uses.
As time passed, he became well known as skilled in
such resources, and this encouraged him to start an
informal and illegal business to sell his “pirated” copies
of films, music, games and ringtones for mobile phones.
His behavior displeases his father who does not know how
to approach the subject and stop João from acting illegally,
since the father himself usually boasts of using non-licensed
software in his company.
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What does the law
provide on this case?
• Whenever João downloads and shares music, videos
and other contents without authorization, he is violating
the copyrights of the author of such works, incurring in
the punishments set forth in art. 184 of the Penal Code,
namely imprisonment from three (03) months to one
(01) year, or fine. If the copyright violation is carried out
aiming at profiting, the punishment is increased to two
(02) to four (04) years, and fine.
• Furthermore, João shall also pay an indemnity to be
settled in Court to the author whose work had been
violated (articles 107 and 108 of the Copyright Law, No.
9,610/1998).
• When João’s father uses, non-licensed computer
programs (“pirated” software) in his company he is
committing the crime provided in article 12, of Act
9,609/1998, which deals with computer programs,
whose punishment is imprisonment from six months to
two years, or fine. If the violation consists of copies for
commercial purposes, the punishment may be increased
to imprisonment from one to four years, and fine. Besides,
João’s father shall also be required to pay indemnity to
the company that owns the software (art. 14 of Act No.
9,609/1998).
Cyberbullying
Unfortunately, with the Internet becoming increasingly
popular, children and adolescents commonly use such
tool to disseminate gossips, make fun of somebody
else’s figure and looks, besides demoralizing people by
reason of their physical characteristics, religion, race,
preferences etc. Such practices became known as
cyberbullying, such term being understood as all acts
of physical or psychological aggression - of intentional,
repetitive nature and with no apparent motivation -,
caused by one or more persons against a colleague in
disadvantage, with the purpose of causing pain and
humiliation. Insults, frightening, exposure to ridicule,
defamation and more concealed aggressions, as
rejection and isolation, are examples of such practice.
Besides the disturbances that cyberbullying may cause
to the victim, the Bully (author of the aggressions) may
be held liable for crimes against the honor, and also be
required to pay indemnity for damages caused to the
victim.
Keep an eye!
“It was just for fun!”,
is what aggressors say.
Is it true?
The aggressor usually justifies his bullies as being jokes
in order to defend himself and continue practicing his
cruelties. But offense is not a joke! One of the bullying
characteristics is exactly the difficulty to identify it. The
fact that this practice is common among children and
adolescents does not mean that it is normal or that it
is not harmful.
Parents and schools must take Cyberbullying seriously, since it is an aggression and a criminal attack to a
person’s psychological, physical and social integrity.
Any person who witnesses such offense from outside
must not and cannot disregard it, if he actually intends
to avoid or put an end to this type of violence.
A case of the courts
Student shall pay damages to colleague for swearing
In 2007, a student of the graduate program of a University of Minas Gerais, sent an extremely offensive message
against a colleague of his class. The e-mail was addressed to 52 people, including other colleagues and teachers.
The aggressor called the student “imbecile” and “retarded”, saying that she wrote useless e-mails.
The offended student filed a suit for pain and suffering against the colleague, claiming that she had suffered
psychological stress for having been humiliated and held up to ridiculous before the people with whom she
socialized.
At the end of the suit, the student was sentenced by the Supreme Court of the Estate of Minas Gerais to pay an
indemnity in the amount of R$ 4,000 (four thousand reais) for pain and suffering to the offended colleague.
Source: Press Office of the Supreme Court of the Estate of Minas Gerais.
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When children or adolescents isolate themselves or shut themselves in their room, or do not
chat, that’s not a good sign!
It is important to make it clear to all, parents and children, which are the risks and benefits from
using the Internet. Consider the dialogue about the Internet as an important moment of support
and general guidance for the child and the adolescent. The information, care and security that
parents can transmit are essential to strengthen their children’s self esteem and trust.
Advise your son as to the safe use of the Internet. Read the First Reader with him and browse
through websites that offer information and security tips:
•
Jornal Jovem:
Edition 06 - www.jornaljovem.com.br/edicao6/
Edition 11 - www.jornaljovem.com.br/edicao11/
•
World Childhood Foundation: www.wcf.org.br
•
Browse protected: www.navegueprotegido.com.br
Crated in 2003 by initiative of Microsoft, the portal Browse Protected has relevant content to keep
parents, young people and teachers safe and educate children about the importance of safe browsing
inside and outside their homes.
The Statute of the Child and Adolescent
(Act No. 8,069/1990)
Child Pornography
The number of pages made available on the Internet about child pornography has increased
alarmingly in recent years, to the point of becoming a public security issue. The United Nations
defines child pornography as “the exhibition, by any means, of a child involved in explicit sexual
acts, real or simulated, or any exposure of the child’s genitalia for lustful intent” (1).
In Brazil, this crime is provided for in article 241 of the Child and Adolescent Statute (Act No.
8,069/90). According to this law provision, the simple possession of photography containing
pornography involving a child or adolescent on the computer is crime by virtue of amendments
to the Child and Adolescent Statute, in 2008.
Most parents and educators, as well as the adolescents themselves imagine that they will find
such criminal activity only on websites intended for sex or disclosure of pornographic content.
However, the targets of this type of criminals are exactly the Chat rooms on the web and the
relationship websites whose target audience are children and adolescents.
The investigated cases reveal that criminals infiltrate by means of fake profiles, mainly in
relationship sites and debate groups pretending to be youth or children of the same age as their
interlocutors, in order to obtain information such as: habits, home and school addresses and,
even worse, to win the trust of underage Internet users, with the purpose of scheduling virtual
meetings aimed at enticing and harassing, as well personal meetings which make the practice of
acts of sexual violence viable.
In face of such reality, protect the privacy of your data; do not expose yourself on the Internet;
do not establish relationships with strangers via web. Please view, at the end of this First Reader,
more tips on how to behave safely on the Internet.
1 Optional Protocol to the Convention on Child´s Rights on Children´s Trafficking, Infantile Prostitution and Infantile Pornography - Article 2, “c”, ratified by Brazil by
Decree 5007, of March 8th, 2004.
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241-A. To offer, exchange, deliver, transmit, distribute,
publish or disclose by any means including by the
computer or telematic system, photo, video or any other
record that contains explicit sex or pornography scenes
involving children or adolescents.
Penalty – detention from three (03) to six (06) years and
fine.
Art. 241-D. To entice harass, incite or constrain, by any
means of communication, a child, with the purpose of
molesting him/her:
Penalty – detention from one (01) to three (03) years and
fine.
Civil Responsibility of parents
and schools
Now, you already know that the Internet user is subject
to the same laws existing outside the cyberspace.
Thus, when causing any harm to somebody, the person
responsible for committing such harm shall provide a
civil remedy to the victim due to the unlawful act he
committed. As a matter of fact, the Brazilian Civil Code
provides that “any person who, through voluntary act or
omission, negligence or imprudence, violates a right and
causes harm to another person, even if exclusively moral,
commits unlawful act” and shall be civilly liable (art.
186 together with art. 197, Civil Code).
When the unlawful act is committed by a minor, his
parents may be held liable for the acts committed by
their child. Further, if the minor uses a computer of his
school to commit the unlawful act, the school may be
required to indemnify the victim for the act committed
by its student.
Such responsibility exists because it is the parents and
the schools’ obligation to watch and take care of their
children and students, under the penalty of being held
civilly liable for the acts committed by the minors.
Art. 932, items I and IV, of the
Civil Code
The following are also responsible for
civil redress:
• Parents, for their minor children
who are under their authority and
in their company;
• The educational institution for their
students, while they are under their
guard(2).
2 The wording mentioned is an adaptation of item IV of
art. 932 of the Civil Code, whose original text is: “owners
of hotels, hostels, homes or businesses which lodges
for money, even for education purposes, by its guests,
residents and students”
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while they explore the Internet. Please visit
www.NavegueProgetido.com.br.
Tips to use the Interne t safely
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• Remember that the relationships established on the Internet are relati
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among people; therefore, it is important to take the same care you take
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your daily personal contacts: do not disclose personal information which
full name,
compromise or jeopardize you, such as address, phone number, your
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relatives’ name, working place, name of the school where you study, data
indicate your routine;
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Internet or mobile phone, which may compromise or jeopardize you.
picture;
matter how much you trust the person to whom you are sending the
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damage;
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• Preserve your privacy: do not disclose personal information, conta
onships
videos, and be careful whenever you make business and maintain relati
via Internet;
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• Be careful with new friendships, searching references before thinking
know them;
even when
• Take your time when scheduling a date with virtual friends, because
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a date,
you think they are trustworthy, they are still strangers. If you schedule
try to do it at busy places, such as a mall, and never go alone;
s and honest
• Before publishing anything, remember that it’s not only your friend
people that use the Internet;
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• Suspect people and websites that disrespect the law and promote
or manifest themselves against ethics;
ams), or
• Do not install non-authorized, non-licensed programs (“pirated” progr
programs of unknown origin in your computer;
hly install
• Use a firewall program, antivirus software in your computer and mont
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the most recent updates supplied by the manufacturer of the operationa
system and antivirus software;
files sent
• Do not click on web links that come with e-mails or open attached
before
by strangers. In case of doubt, get in touch with the message sender
clicking a link or opening an attached file;
• Be ethical, polite and act under the law;
• Be a citizen and denounce whatever you find wrong on the Internet.
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What can be denounced
and how to do it?
All crimes practiced on the Internet can be denounced, such as: racism, religious or
sexual intolerance, child pornography, embezzlement, cyberbullying, apology to
crimes among others.
To denounce, contact the following authorities:
INTERNATIONAL
• Cyber Law Enforcement
www.cyberlawenforcement.org
• Virtual Global Taskforce
www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com
AUSTRALIA
• Australian High Tech Crime Centre
EUROPEAN UNION
• Europol
www.europol.europa.eu/index.
asp?page=FunnelIntro
• International Association of
Internet Hotlines
www.inhope.org
• Safer Internet Programme
www.saferinternet.org
www.afp.gov.au/policing/e-crime.aspx
BRAZIL
• Federal Prosecutor’s Office
www.prsp.mpf.gov.br/aplicativos/digidenuncia
• State Police of São Paulo
www.ssp.sp.gov.br/servicos/denuncias/
default.aspx
CANADA
• Cybertip
cybertip.ca
UNITED KINGDOM
• Child Exploitation and Online
Protection
www.ceop.police.uk/report-abuse/
• Internet Watch
www.iwf.org.uk/report/
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• Internet Crime Complaint Center
www.ic3.gov
• Identity Theft and Fraud
www.justice.gov/criminal/fraud/websites/
idtheft.html
• RCMP Fraud Prevention Page
www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/scams-fraudes/indexeng.htm
• National Cyber Security Alliance
www.staysafeonline.org
Do also cooperate to everybody’s benefit!
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Conclusion
Updated communication resources such as the Internet
should not be rejected or kept apart by virtue of unlawful
acts committed by this cyber means. After all, the society
has evolved greatly in the most different areas, allowing the
building of relationships among people with similar affinities,
either from foreign countries or just unknown so far, providing
cultural exchange at distance, creating a notion of “global
society”.
Further, it is important to break the digital barrier that separates
parents from their children; such distance cannot exist anymore,
but it still occurs because many parents remain distant from their
children’s behavior in the virtual environment due to their own
ignorance of the computer science.
Parents must also understand that respecting their children’s
privacy cannot be a synonymous of lack of supervision and
surveillance, which shall occur in consonance with the respect for
the own family’s values.
It is essential that children know that their parents are aware of what
occurs on the Internet, and that they can trust them if they suffer any
aggression in the virtual environment. Further, it is necessary that
parents explain to their children the importance of the conscious use
of the Internet and the consequences that may arise from irresponsible
attitudes.
Thus, this First Reader is a good supporting tool to help the whole family
to learn and become informed about the risks and tips that exist on
the Internet, and they can, fearlessly, make the best of the advantages
provided by it, with security and responsibility.
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