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• 09 Jul 08
  

  Starr Svaldi

  informationliteracy

• 18 Jun 08
  

  Pat Sine

  InternetSafety

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    Middle schoolers are more likely to be the perpetrators of cyber crime than the victims, a new study by a Rochester Institute of Technology researcher has found.
  • a child's peers are the biggest danger when it comes to cyber safety.
  • 45 percent admit to committing cyber crime, while only 39 percent report being victimized.
  • Kids, he said, bully, solicit and share inappropriate pictures, and hack into accounts. They also illegally downloaded movies and music and cheat on their school work online.
  • In the survey 66 percent of high school students reported that parents provide no supervision of their Internet activities, only 7 percent of parents reported the same thing.

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