<p>These days every laptop comes with a built-in webcam. We love webcams because they have made it possible for us to stay in contact with our loved ones not only verbally but visually. Online meetings with overseas clients have also become more personal. Job interviews can now be held remotely and online tutoring classes have become more practicable.</p>

<p>Every day we learn that large Tech companies including Facebook, Amazon, Google, Snapchat, Microsoft fail to defend our privacy (and appear to many, as simply not caring) and many openly sell and share our data&nbsp;which means anyone who buys advertising.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe really annoyed</p> <p>Prime Minister, Theresa May, when she was Home Secretary.&nbsp;She agreed with his stance on cybercrime, but not the way he went about it. He suggested&nbsp;Police would be slow to investigate online security crimes where the individuals failed to take online protection&nbsp;seriously especially having an &#39;upto date&#39; antivirus. He openly backed banks, credit card providers doing the same, not refunding customers losses. She disliked the way he went about it, she&#39;s not so so keen on the other guy in the photo below either.&nbsp;</p> <h4>&nbsp;</h4>

<p>Children are vulnerable, but they are even more vulnerable if they are not equipped with the knowledge to protect themselves.</p> <p>We explain the importance of friend selection online. Often children accept friend requests from people they don&rsquo;t know simply because they want to increase their number of friends online.</p>

<p>For ages 10-12, we chat to classes about both platforms and what they have to be careful of and why these platforms pose a risk for them. Children often create multiple accounts and neglect important privacy settings. Our&nbsp;talks help kids understand the importance of their privacy and why it&rsquo;s dangerous and &quot;uncool&rdquo; to showcase their lives online.</p>

<p>One of the topics we speak about during our internet safety talk for teens&nbsp;is sexting - both children and teens are doing it, and we need to help them understand the serious&nbsp;implications of it.&nbsp;</p>

<p>We chat about the following internet safety topics, social media platforms and how to stay safe online. Talks are delivered via Zoom to classroom or students at home with Teacher moderation. Proofing very effective for Schools, Parents and beneficial for Kids.<br /> <br /> Classes are available internationally, presented in English. We have presented over 500 talks to Schools in the Middle East, UK Ireland, Europe, Africa and even the&nbsp;US army in Europe.&nbsp;</p>

<p>As teens get older they are faced with more and more online safety issues. Our goal is explain the following topics so that they are prepared for what their online activity may present.</p> <p>Teens enjoy being spoken to as young adults (which they are) and our internet safety talks for teens engage with students on a more casual yet serious level.</p>

<p>An internet safety talk and online reputation talk to this age group is one of the most challenging audiences there is, however we have managed to hone a presentation based on realities, growing up and their responsibilties.</p> <p>We bring home the consequences of phone addiction, making practical suggestion to help in getting jobs, managing social media, how Google, Facebook and social media see them as a result.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Social Media and Internet security are a minefield for business, fail to appreciate this and the consequences could be devasting</p> <p>We speak to business, sporting organisations, NGOs and Government about theses issues to build a great appreciation. We give engaging, concise talks and we&#39;re frequently interviewed in the media.</p>

<p>We will help you build your business, sales and online reputation and get cyber aware. We&#39;re online reputation and cyber security experts.</p>

<p>We have given 100&#39;s of talks about Sexting, you&rsquo;ll hear a pin drop when sexting is discussed. For starters, most Teenagers don&#39;t realise that Adult content is illegal. Naturally, teenagers have a huge appetite for Adult Content, which is how we refer to &#39;pornography&#39;. It is so hard for Teachers, Parents to have this talk, Sexting is our most requested internet safety talks for Senior schools. <a href="https://www.besecureonline.co.uk/Book-Expert-Speaker"><strong><span style="color:#3300ff;">Booking Enquiry</span></strong></a></p> <p>The main purpose of the Talks is to explain the consequences, making Students aware of the effects on their future, careers, interests, relationship.</p> <h4>Articles of Interest</h4> <p>Check out our article about&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.besecureonline.co.uk/Blog/entryid/51/internet-safety-building-the-right-online-reputation" target="_blank">Online Reputation</a>.</strong><br /> <br /> Safety Guidelines &ndash; What parents need to know about&nbsp;<strong><a href="https://www.besecureonline.co.uk/Blog/entryid/60/snapchat-safety-guidelines-what-parents-need-to-know">Snapchat</a></strong><a href="https://www.besecureonline.co.uk/Blog/entryid/60/snapchat-safety-guidelines-what-parents-need-to-know"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></a></p> <p>Let&#39;s talk about <strong>S<a href="https://besecureonline.co.uk/Blog/entryid/79/lets-talk-about-sexting">exting</a></strong></p>

<p>We think it&#39;s a great idea for people to use VPN on Phones. &nbsp;Here is a five-point guide&nbsp;why you should put a VPN on your phone.&nbsp;</p> <p>VPN usage has exploded over recent years and here are 5 good reasons why you should instal VPN. Firstly the good news is if you have either an iPhone, Android phone it is perfectly easy to set up a VPN on your phone. First, the science part &#39;VPN&#39; stands for virtual private network. It&#39;s great technology and we think everybody should install a VPN on their phone.</p>

<p>Hosted endpoint protection and explain why you should be seriously considering it. Hackers and online criminals are not sophisticated people, they regard everybody as fair game. One of the most productive areas for them to attack is the SMB sector especially small-business. This is sadly highlighted by the number of small American towns which have been completely shut down by IT criminals and cybercrime gangs mainly from ransomware attacks.</p>

<p>Instagram Threads is a new feature in its &#39;Close Friends&#39; option. The new &#39;Auto Status&#39; facility is causing a stir. It tells people (close friends)&nbsp;<br /> 1. Where you are&nbsp;<br /> 2. What you are doing&nbsp;<br /> 3. Possibly, your mood | Note - Even when you are not using Instagram but in a passive mode. Instagram says you have to enable it, so what!</p>

<p>Stop it with VPN.</p> <p>VPN is everywhere now, a vital part of cybersecurity, internet safety. It&#39;s suddenly become time for everyone to get a private untracked connection which speeds up your online connection, improves your internet security,&nbsp;and reduces advertising and hide&nbsp;what you do online. VPN adverts are everywhere.&nbsp;Here&#39;s a breakdown of what you need. The first thing you don&#39;t need is a free VPN. You need the right provider, not the first one to appear on an internet&nbsp;search. You want to search the internet, not let the internet search you.&nbsp;</p> <p>Big data, the Internet of things, and advertising is now at the core of the Internet. The internet is force-feeding you its selections, recommendations, would it be nice to make your own choices for once.&nbsp;</p>

<h2>Kids Go Free, sometimes!</h2> <p>As parents and guardians, we want our&nbsp;children to be protected online and use the net safely. The good news is there&#39;s much we can do for free. Good parenting means setting up parental controls on the devices our kids use to access the internet.</p> <p>Much as we&#39;d like to be there for our kids every minute of every day, we just can&#39;t. But using free parental control, we can manage this worrying issue effectively, there&#39;s a great number of things we can do for out of the box for free.</p>

<p>This is the opinion of leading American experts at MIT. Schoolyard bullying has been seriously reduced since 1999. Sadly the bullies many of whom are cowards have taken to cyberbullying instead. Online bullying is the only form of bullying growing. This ain&#39;t what Steve Jobs brought the world the iPhone to do.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>The problem is quite simple. TikTok&rsquo;s minimum age is 13, Tiktok does nothing during the sign-up process to check&nbsp; - meaning huge numbers of children join below the required age with no legal protection. TikTok also serves adverts and recommendations which may not be suitable for children. Families will find it is difficult to contact TikTok to get videos taken down.</p> <p>Even truthful 13-year-olds are then given an option to make their accounts public.</p>

<p>Text is one of the main ways kids avoid being caught by parents. Text is now commonplace in everything so much so it&#39;s officially becoming&nbsp;part of the language.&nbsp;&nbsp;102. 420 &ndash; Marijuana, 104. CD9 &ndash; Code 9 &ndash; it means parents are around, 108. NIFOC &ndash; Nude In Front Of The Computer</p>

<h2>Here is how you install Freedome VPN on iPhone.</h2> <p>To watch the BBC iPlayer, follow these steps for installing on an iPhone.&nbsp;Apple has changed things up a little on the iPhone. Follow these steps.</p> <h3><span style="color:#6699cc;">Before VPN this is how it looks.. The BBC</span></h3>

<h3><strong>Babies, Toddlers &amp;&nbsp;Pre Schoolers </strong><span style="color:#6699cc;">on Devices</span></h3> <p>Nowadays kids&nbsp;are being introduced to Phones in the maternity ward.&nbsp;New parents have&nbsp;to manage their new life&nbsp;parenting, work and technology including phones which in many cases are required by work so the phone can&#39;t be avoided. As well as having to look after your&nbsp;newborn, you have to juggle how to manage your babies exposure to devices and the internet.&nbsp;</p>

<h2><span style="color:#6699ff;">Shopping</span> on VPN is safer</h2> <p>Contactless payments have come of age, the cashless society gets closer and closer with shops refusing to handle cash during COVID19 lockdown and many shops will go&nbsp;cashless from now on.&nbsp;Using your phone to shop online and in-person is the new norm. Banks wish that cash would disappear, it costs a fortune to provide customers with cash and threatens staff safety.&nbsp;Online payment is convenient, yet we the public do almost nothing to secure our device safety online.</p>

<p>Changes to everyday life due to the Coronavirus, we need to help our kids, tweens and teenagers adjust to the new and unfamiliar situation of indefinite school and childcare creche closings.</p>

<p>VPN companies promise to help protect you, but how can you know which of the many available services are trustworthy? And why the heck do you suddenly need one? But doing a VPN right isn&rsquo;t so easy. And you definitely don&#39;t want a Chinese VPN. Here&#39;s why you should seriously consider one and some thoughts on which you should get one</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p id="id_title">The United States is letting ISPs, your internet supplier (Internet service provider) sell your personal data.<br /> <br /> The Europeans are no better, slow to enforce the new GDPR.&nbsp;In the meantime, more&nbsp;money&nbsp;will be made from your internet details. Here&#39;s how to protect yourself. <strong>The time for VPN is now, here is why!</strong></p>

<p>We forget the vast amounts of personal data we share with our devices daily. On any given day we could be tackling sensitive work emails, planning our next holiday, or just booking some doctor&rsquo;s appointments.<br /> Thankfully, it&rsquo;s pretty easy to tighten your device security. Read on for four easy things you can do today to protect your personal info along with your devices.</p>

<p>Facebook research says people using fake names &amp; profiles are 5 times more likely to bully others. To protect their users they delete over 2 billion accounts every quarter. The Policeman&rsquo;s Guide to happy social media for kids developed by the &lsquo;City of Tokyo Police&rsquo; and copied by Police Forces worldwide. It is a simple plan for protecting young kids who love social media. This approach is based on a simple philosophy.</p>

<p>Practical steps for kids under 4 years of age. They may not have a phone, but they know how to use them. Here are some great tips, tricks for managing them. Games, In-App purchasing, Microphones.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The best setting there is Private. Setting up Instagram for online safety.<br /> Here are the steps for setting up Instagram&#39;s private profile setting it done, for iPhone and Android Phones: This way only invited friends can enjoy your Instagram.</p>

<p>When you create a TikTok account your profile is automatically made public so that anyone can follow you and view your videos, but if you want to prevent strangers from seeing your content, TikTok lets you make your account private at any time.</p>

<p>We wouldn&#39;t let our kids jump on a motorbike without showing them how to ride it safely. However every day of the week thousands of kids hit the internet for the first time without any instruction. Let&#39;s change that.</p>

<p>Ten TikTok Tips for TikTok safety, 10 tips parents can use to help keep teenagers safer online, on TikTok.&nbsp;TikTok is the controversial short-form video platform with editing, effects, and sounds to develop great fun memes along with creative content.</p>

<p>Every day, parents write into us, asking, what do I do, I&#39;ve just seen nude, naked pictures on my teens phone. What do I do, What can I do? All of this involves online wellbeing, sexting, snapchat, tiktok</p>

<p>Kids bamboozled you with VPNs and V-Bucks? Makes you feel a bit out of your parenting depth keeping the kids safe online. Surveys find somewhere between half and a third of parents give up and let their kids use the internet without any restrictions. Don&#39;t give up!</p>