Safety

Internet and today technological world can aid us is so many ways, we use it for research, communicate, play game and many more. But it can be just as easily used in the wrong way and can cause harm towards our society. While there are different online protection agency's run by the government like the Children s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), we can still get become a victim. For instance a child may be on the internet using to look at Lego but he incorrectly types leg and he is confronted with pornographic materials. For children there are ways to stop these kinds of things happening, there is something available called Internet Service Provider (ISP) Filtering and this can block much of the inappropriate material on the internet, as well as malicious websites. While many kids are vulnerable adults are also equally so, many things created my malicious people have been designed to steal personal information. These things can go on for week and in some cases decades. The main danger is that these people will use your personal information to access you personally bank accounts and online shopping services to use your money. To help to this kinds of things happening to you, guard yourself with internet security and do make sure you are using safe sites. Many internet protection software will warn you if you are entering a harmful or safe websites this will lower the risk of program like key-loggers (keystroke recorder) and malware being installed on your computer.