Introduction
to Internet Safety / Computer Ethics
If there is a question about the pressing need of a program like this, one needs only to look at what some of the recent research is showing.
It’s been shown that among the children using the internet,
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71% reported receiving messages online from someone they don’t know,
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45% have been asked for personal information by someone they don’t know,
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30% have considered meeting someone that they’ve only talked to online and
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14% have actually met a person face-to-face that they’ve only spoken to over the Internet.