Monday, April 16, 2018

Safety of apps for your child

Is the app safe your child?
Visit the following website to find out which apps are in the green zone and safe to use. Or in the gray zone, where parents should participate with their child using these apps. To be watchful if the apps are in the red zone and which are not safe for your child.
https://smartsocial.com/app-guide-parents-teachers/

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Friday, March 30, 2018

Rethink before post

Rethink before post.
Rethink app which we can encourage our kids to install to rethink before he/she types and post.

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Fake news

With emerging technologies, it's getting harder to tell what's real and what's fake. What are the dangers of online falsehoods and how should Singapore deal with it? Talking Point investigates.



https://video.toggle.sg/en/series/talking-point-2017/ep40/571488

Do take a few minutes to read this article from Channel News Asia (CNA, 9 Mar 2018). 

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/fake-news-getting-harder-to-spot-singapore-select-committee-10027310

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Cyber-bullying

Cyberbullying in many ways can be worse than physical bullying and has serious consequences. Please help your child be an Upstander! 😇

You can also find out more about Cyberbullying by watching this video on "Talking Point" (local documentary).

Stay safe, respectful and positive online! 😀

https://video.toggle.sg/en/series/talking-point-2017/ep39/570087

Emailed by Mr Shaw Wee 9 March 2018

Watch the video by Talking point on the issue of cyber-bullying.

https://video.toggle.sg/en/series/talking-point-2017/ep39/570087

Sunday, February 18, 2018

Beware of a new genre of malevolent videos targeting young children

Please be aware of a new genre of malevolent videos targeting young children on video-sharing sites such as YouTube. This was information was provided in a Forum Letter alert dated 26 January 2018.


Beware of new videos targeting children (Guo Hang, ST Forum, 26/1, pA30)

Parents in Singapore should be made aware of a new genre of malevolent videos targeting young children on video-sharing sites such as YouTube.

The videos are easily found on children's channels on video-sharing sites.

They have familiar baby rhymes in the background and feature brightly coloured cartoon characters.

However, these characters act out violent and sexual scenes that exceed the tolerance level even of adults.

I was sickened and horrified when I saw one. Children may become traumatised or influenced by the violence.

But what troubled me most, as a researcher in the artificial intelligence industry, was how little we can do to rectify the problem, and how our current information infrastructure can be easily compromised by such well-engineered attacks.

In the tech industry, we use a combination of algorithmic recommendation and human feedback as a way to optimise knowledge sharing and discovery.

This good design has been exploited by video-makers.

They use harmless hashtags and cartoon characters to trick the classification algorithms on video-sharing sites into thinking these videos belong in the children's category.

Bots and humans then provide false reviews to fool the ranking algorithms. This results in the videos being promoted as recommended videos.

For the moment, we are without any legitimate weapon to counter this. But the fact is, even the best algorithms cannot match the darkness of some human minds.

 Shared by Mr Shaw Wee via email

Cyber-crime: Avoid these pitfalls!

Heard of malware, phishing, botnets, ransomware, spam............?

Cyber-crimes are becoming more and more prevalent and elaborate these days and will continue to evolve.

Please spend some time to browse through this website: https://staysafeonline.org/stay-safe-online/. It provides simple and useful tips on how to stay safe online.

Shared by Mr Shaw Wee via email