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A new “trend” is spreading among young people on social media. Looking for a boyfriend or girlfriend, they, unaware of the danger that lies ahead, share information about themselves on the Internet.
Source: B92, TK
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Someone malicious could easily abuse that youthful desire to fall in love.
“Well, I’m looking for a boyfriend who is 13 or 14 years old, who is not fat and who knows that he loves. I am 12.”, is just one of the posts on one of the many Instagram pages where these and similar messages are posted daily.
Guys advertise too.
“I’m looking for someone to correspond with. I’m 14 years old, I’m not too handsome …”, is a message behind which, at least judging by the image, a boy stands naked to the waist and shows his biceps.
There are also those who do “service” to friends. However, nowhere does it say whether they do it with the knowledge or without the knowledge of the child they are “dating.”
“I’m looking for a BFF boyfriend. Her boyfriend type is: having black hair, being a bit perverted, being 15 years old. For more information, let me know. Here’s a picture of her,” a friend’s “request” was posted. Interested parties tell you in the comments to contact them with the abbreviation “jvs” (answer).
There are many profiles on Instagram created with the goal of finding a “soul mate” for teenagers and, it seems, they are working hard at it. So only one of them has over 800 posts and up to 7,000 followers.
If everything seems serious, there are “rules”.
That is, the aforementioned profile requires that the user “be over 12 years old”, and works by sending young people who want to find a boyfriend or girlfriend their photo, as well as their data.
The administrator then shares that information in a profile that is unlocked and whose posts can be viewed by absolutely anyone on the Internet.
Thus, pedophiles can also obtain information about minors and, to top it all, posts are tagged, that is, the profiles of the people who send their data and photos are flagged.
“It doesn’t have to mean that there are children behind those profiles.”
The National Contact Center for Child Internet Safety cautions both parents and children not to leave their data on the Internet.
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“According to the rules of social networks, children over 13 have the right to use social networks. When you accept the terms of use when creating a profile, which are the fine print when creating an account, the administrator (network ) thus distances himself from posting on social media. “, they claim for B92.net at that center.
As they say, it is possible to report content to the administrator, but responds only to content that is explicit, mostly of a pornographic nature and then both the police and the Prosecutor’s Office react.
“This is why we keep telling parents who haven’t finished work if kids buy a device, laptop or phone, but they need to be careful how they use those devices and what content they follow,” they say.
According to our interlocutors at the National Center, most of the time parents report profiles of this content.
“In this case, it is mainly about advertisements. However, it does not have to mean that children are behind those profiles,” they say.
As they warn, pedophiles do just that: they hide behind fake profiles, with fake images, and they also use different IP addresses to confuse the police.
“We wrote to him that the IP address is in Great Britain, and he is sitting in Vranje. We found in practice that we have so many pedophiles, especially the younger generation, who are hacking and trained for online fraud”, they warned.
Generally, there are no penalties for posting data and photos online. the most that can be achieved is to simply remove that content and nothing else, note of that institution from the Ministry of Commerce, Tourism and Telecommunications.
Train parents first, then children
The National Contact Center for Child Internet Safety notes that today, children often do better on the Internet than the elderly.
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“We are starting online training for teachers and caregivers in October to explain to children how to use the Internet wisely and to let a child know not to talk to strangers, both on the street and on the Internet,” they say.
They point out that there are phrases that pedophiles use more frequently, such as yes ask their interlocutors to delete the correspondence every day or ask if the parents read the correspondence.
“It must be a red traffic light for children so that it can be a false representation and that someone else can be behind the profile,” they warn.
According to data from that institution, up to 94 percent of young people in Serbia have a profile on social networks.
The National Contact Center for Child Safety on the Internet works like them report a problem, they compile a case where there must be evidence, which is screenshots of correspondence on the Internet and a link, and then that case is sent to the High Tech Crime Prosecutor’s Office or the police.
“They are still working on the case, so we are a kind of link to make the system more efficient. We are an anonymous center, so a child can call us if they don’t want to tell their parents or go to the police“, they affirm.
Commissioner: Problem of territorial jurisdiction
The Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Protection of Personal Data states that Instagram is owned by the Facebook company, which has no representative office or representative in Serbia, and that this is a big problem for state institutions in Serbia.
“Citizens turn to the Commissioner regarding the protection of their data on social networks, but the Commissioner in these cases cannot carry out supervision procedures, due to their territorial competence,” the institution told B92.net.
According to them, only if a person initiates a lawsuit for the publication of their data or a photo, the Commissioner reacts by reporting it to the Prosecutor’s Office.
“If a crime has been committed through social networks, the Commissioner informs the Belgrade Superior Prosecutor’s Office, Special Department for High Technology Crimes and instructs people who can exercise their rights by going directly to the social network,” they say .
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