Concerns raised over child safety and privacy online [thejournal.ie]
- Published: 12 October 2011
A NEW STUDY commissioned by the ISPCC has found that one in six secondary school students in Ireland has met, in person, someone they initially met online.
The survey involved 18,116 young people around Ireland aged from eight to 18. More than four out of ten (44 per cent) of respondents in the secondary school/youth category said they use the internet in their own bedroom, while a quarter of young people in this category said they did not use privacy settings.
Over a third of the primary school group said they did not how to keep their social network account private.
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