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Online abuse and your family

Abuse, harassment and bullying are harsh realities of the online world. The best way to fight it is to report it. Discuss the different types of online abuse with your kids and stress that online abuse isn’t something they should try to deal with on their own. Tell your kids to trust their instincts whenever they have suspicions, and encourage them to tell you if they ever feel threatened or uncomfortable because of someone or something online.

Where to report online abuse

Concerns can be reported to your local police (911), or they can be reported to:

Cybertip.ca

http://www.cybertip.ca

Cybertip.ca is Canada's national tip-line for reporting the online sexual exploitation of children.

Cybertip.ca also accepts reports by telephone: 1-866-658-9022

National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre

http://ncecc.ca/

The National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre is part of the RCMP and was created to help protect children from online sexual exploitation.

Virtual Global Taskforce

http://www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com/

The Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT) is made up of police forces from around the world working together to fight online child abuse.

Types of online abuse

Thanks to the Internet’s sense of anonymity, it can be used with bad intentions. Here are some of the different ways that the Internet is misused

Creating or stealing an online account to impersonate, harass, bully, intimidate or threaten someone and/or that person's contacts
Using an account to act in sexually suggestive ways
Using a fake account to disguise themselves and their true malicious intentions
Posting images, text or links that are illegal or obscene
Using an account to send Spam

All of the above forms of online abuse should be reported!

What to save

Knowing what to save if online abuse or bullying is occurring gives you a powerful tool to use against people who are harassing you online.
Here’s what you should save so you can effectively report abuse.

E-mail

E-mail address of sender
Date and time received
Copies of any relevant e-mails with full e-mail headers

MSN Spaces or Weblogs

E-mail address / Nickname of person posting
Web Address (URL) of the MSN Space or Weblog
Date and time posted
A screenshot of the page in question

Instant Messenger

E-mail address of sender
Date and time received
Copies of any links or files that have been sent through

Groups or communities

URL of offending MSN Group
Nickname of offending person
E-mail address of offending person
Date you saw it happen

Web profiles

URL of Profile
Nickname of offending person
E-mail address of offending person

Chatrooms

Date and time of chat
Name and URL of the chat room
Nickname of offending person
E-mail address of offending person