The successful two-day workshop, presentations and presentations on the Creative and Safe Internet has been completed. The program of the second day (Friday) initially included the presentation entitled “Internet, of course yes! Myths and reality… what is going to happen…” with Manolis Sfakianakis, former Commander of the Cybercrime Prosecution.
The presentation entitled “Protecting the privacy and personality of minors on the Internet” was then presented by Dr. Lilian Mitrou, Associate Professor, Department of Information & Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. Afterwards, Dr. Charalambos Tsekeris, Teaching Delegate at the Department of Communication and Media of the National University of Athens, Academy of Athens spoke about “Digital Wellbeing and Excellence in the Fourth Industrial Revolution” while then Dr. Vasilios Kotoulas, School Counselor of the 2nd Regional Directorate of Karditsa developed the topic “Proposal for the development of a program for informing / training parents on the safe & creative use of the Internet”.
The founder of the Cybercrime Investigation Service in 1995, now retired, announced that the Greek digital CSI under establishment, the institute that will be active in the internet space and will inform citizens, parents and children about the dangers that lurk while also providing free educational services, will have among its founding members His Eminence Metropolitan of Demetrias and Almyros, Mr. Ignatios, with whom he had a meeting at the Conference Center in Melissatika before the start of his speech.
Manolis Sfakianakis, fully identified with the Prosecution of Electronic Crime, stressed that the internet is the light, the only way to progress and makes the world a better place because 98% of the internet is positive.
He mentioned that we should not demonize the internet and stressed that recently it has become fashionable to build a reputation on the internet as well as to tarnish it, mainly by political or business opponents, and from this reputation management has developed.
The management of digital reputation - image becomes more intense in the political arena as elections approach and politicians about whom negative comments are written want to eliminate them. At first, recording is done with the help of services such as trackur, google alerts or websites such as ReviewPro.com and Revinate.com), then evaluation and then cleaning by special "cleaning" companies that use methods even of "suffocation" (the company sends the annoying posts very low in the search engine, creating a multitude of websites with its name, to which it channels positive news, which usually contain keywords).
Referring to cases he handled as head of the Prosecution, Mr. Sfakianakis said that there is no anonymity on the internet as the electronic trace of each connection, such as the mobile number, is traced. He also stressed that the machines that hold data record everything and even if we think we have deleted or destroyed data. "There is no absolute protection. Even through emails we send, the cunning can trap us and gain control of our computer. A safe computer is a computer that is turned off and unplugged.
Finally, he described the noise about Cyberbullying as exaggerated."In the last ten years, we have had approximately 16-17 incidents of Cyberbullying. This is the reality. Today there is a great exaggeration when talking about Cyberbullying. The nonsense we used to talk about in our days and with which we grew up, is what many today call Cyberbullying. There is a great exaggeration," he said.
Source: myvolos.net
