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I serve on the Attorney General’s Youth Internet Safety Task Force in my state, representing my company. This task force was formed in response to all stories of sexual predators out there putting our children at risk. After a year, we’ve come up with education, education, education as a solution; and, not just education for our young people, but for their parents.
Social networking sites are here to stay. What can we do? First as parents, we should make use of the parental controls our ISP’s provide. We should monitor our children’s computer use and keep computers in a public room, not in their bedrooms. We should discuss with them the need to keep their social networking pages private and only allow people they “know” in person to have access. I can go on and on. If anyone is interested, I can send you the link to the task force information.
As for someone hacking into a server’s database and tracing IP address…I’ve never heard of that happening IRL. However, a year or so ago the federal government was asking ISP’s to retain records of ISP addresses and records of what websites each address went to for 12 months as part of the Patriot Act. The Center for Missing and Exploited Children would like the industry to keep this information for even longer. When the industry pointed out the security risks associated with holding that information on every customer for that long I believe a compromised was reached for 3 months (but to be honest it might have been 6 months – I’m too lazy this morning to look). My point is, while it hasn’t happened for my company in the way JP describes, as a company, we had to point out the possibility of a data breach to the government and the need to purge information after a period of time for the protection of all of our customers.
I haven’t had coffee yet…not sure if I’m making sense…
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Paige
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