A project in Leicester looking to educate autistic children about online safety!
5 more tips!
- Your webcam feed can be recorded and faked. When you have finished with your webcam turn it off, or cover the camera with blue tac.
- If anyone you meet on social media makes you feel uncomfortable – delete them!
- Don’t let strangers know where you are. On your mobile phone – don’t enable the location or photo geo-tagging functions.
- Understand the safety functions on your phone, and know how to report things that worry you.
- If you make friends through a game – keep them in the game!
Vanessa Rogers has written a book on cyberbullying – here’s the Amazon link to it.
Slides about learning disabled people using Facebook
Connect in the North has recently done a study on LD people using FB.
Interesting article on sex offenders
It appears that that the British government is trying to restrict the movements and actions of online sex offenders. It’s not implausible that the measures could be extended against those committing hate/mate crime against learning disabled people.
Information given out by Surrey police on Internet safety
Here’s a link to some information given out by Surrey police on Internet safety and hate crime.
Safer Net 