Cyber Threats to Children (Summarized); Arif Rizvi with Zain Ali Qureshi - Baaghban S3E40

Our question here is apart from the content that a child faces a hacking threat on the internet or cyber bullying or phishing, so why are these kinds of threats being given to the children, whoever is doing this, why does he want to do it, what does he want to achieve, which are those activities in which there is the greatest threat, out of all these activities on the internet, which is that activity in which there is the greatest threat that someone cyber bullies him, someone traps him, add this, we often take family pictures, even a non-mahram woman thinks that we are taking family pictures and then we share them on our private page, we have not invited anyone, this page is private or is on our mobile or we share it on Twitter, so are these pictures and videos secure, A Billah Min Shaitan Razi Bismillah Rahman Rahim, there are two parts of the upbringing of children, one is to nurture the abilities present in them, which we call character development or values. Development and secondly, to protect them from the various dangers that they face in this process, a topic which has been given great importance by the religion in its divine book, which appears several times in almost every Surah, is Taqwa, Taqwa means protected life. Taqwa is present in every aspect of life. When a person eats, he should eat safely; when he wears, he should wear safe clothes; when he talks, he should talk safely. In today's era, where children go to school on one hand, they are at home and also outside in parks, we are concerned at many places about what the children are doing, where they are going. If a child goes to a park, we are concerned about whom he is meeting, whom he is talking to; when a child crosses the road, we are concerned that he may not collide with a vehicle; what kind of friends he has; but there is one such thing in children's lives which is increasing in our times, that is the online activity of children, that is, the use of the internet. Statistics tell us that today in the world, children above the age of 8 years, Out of the children above 8 years, 90% of them get connected to the internet in some way or the other, whether it is on a tablet, smart TV or mobile, in any way, they have some connection with the internet and among these 90 % children who are on the internet, statistics tell us that 72% children are those who get some or the other threat on the internet. On this topic, today we are going to talk about what is online internet or cyber threats for children and how to protect them. This topic is very important because in today's era, we cannot cut off children from internet and digitization. They have to use that thing and it is becoming a part of their education. Now it is important here that we recognize the danger present in this world and then understand how to protect ourselves from it. To talk on this topic, today we have a special guest with us, who is Mr. Jain Ali Qureshi, who is a lawyer and especially a cyber law expert. Assalam Walekum Jain sahab, welcome to our programme, Ji Walekum Assalam, thank you so much for meeting me. Our question here is, apart from the content, a child faces hacking threat on the internet, or cyber bullying or phishing; all these things happen with children in which the children give out their personal information, so why are these threats being made to the children, whoever is doing this, why does he want to do it, what does he want to achieve, see, remember one thing, a child cannot make a rational decision, like you just used three words, cyber bullying, cyber stalking, phishing, now if I explain each term one by one, then see, if a child has gone on social media, someone is trapping him, let's suppose, someone is trapping him by posing as a woman, he is feeling that I am talking to a woman, this picture that has been put up is of a woman and what is she asking from her that you give me this personal data of mine Share your pictures with them and when that child shares the pictures or goes on a video call with them, then they come to know that blackmailing has been started with me, these pictures of mine which he made by trapping me or he made this type of video with me by trapping me on a video call, so what happens after that, the children, instead of telling their parents, keep getting blackmailed, what happens in that is that as a lawyer, some such cases also came to me where the children, secretly from their parents, stole money from them and sent it to those blackmailers so that they stop blackmailing us, such cases also came to me, that is, one purpose of the hackers is financial benefits, that the hacker takes someone's credit card information from the children or takes money, one purpose is that he takes that information and what kind of things can happen which can be active, secondly, when you are at a young age, then usually there But some children go into relationships and form relationships, for example, they think that the person they are talking to is a woman, and what happens during relationship building, I am specifically talking about women, I am talking about girls, where relationships are formed where they are made to share videos, pictures and then those pictures are uploaded on porn sites as well, then those pictures are also sent to their family members for sale deals and molestation, and then they are also asked to give money, blackmailing is also done, see, I will also tell you an easy solution to this, if I say that you are 100% secure on social media, then it is not possible, yes, if you adopt one thing, then you are 100% secure, today I am going to tell you that thing, that is self-awareness, the child who has got this awareness today, that he should not share his data, he should not make nude pictures on his mobile phone, Nude videos should not be made. The child should know that the person with whom he is talking is of this colour and the most important thing is that a small child will not add a stranger. By stranger I mean someone whom he does not know. For example, who can be a stranger for me and you? A person enters this room and comes and asks you something. You will be worried that this person is asking me personal questions, I do not even know him. In social media also, behave like in real world, connect like in real world, make friends like in real world. Only those who behave in this manner on social media can successfully protect themselves. And the most important thing, the biggest issue that comes at the end of children is that people usually lure children with a reward that you have won a gift, you have won a car, you have won a pass, if you go to some place or a restaurant, you will get so much free food. So, in this way, children are trapped. All these threats that come Which are those activities which pose the maximum threat to the child? The child gets trapped on the internet from where, firstly, I think that access to everything is bad. I check my mobile phone daily to see what was my screen timing? Was it five hours, six hours, seven hours? It is the responsibility of the parent of the child who is being given the phone to check what was the screen timing. Secondly, they should check the history. The history will explain the mindset of the child as to what he is watching and what are his inclinations towards. Thirdly, the child's attitude, if a child starts to remain quiet, he sits in front of the phone all day but he is quiet and is not saying anything, it means something. A child was very active, he used to go to the grounds, used to play, used to jump, used to play football, used to play badminton. Suddenly, it is found out that he does not even come out of his room, then the parents have to see what happens. Now, what are those things in which this usually happens? But why do children evolve or what is the reason for their evolution, which is your question, see, we cannot tell any specific reason in this but one or two things are very important, children demand love, they demand time from their parents, when parents distance them from themselves, for example, if I tell you my story, I still remember that in the evening, in the playground where I used to go to play, there was a tennis court where my father used to play tennis, so he used to take me along with him and on one side I used to be playing football and my father used to play tennis in the adjacent tennis court, the child follows what the parents do, what do the child see these days, the child sees that the child sees his father and mother, he comes home, the mother is busy on her phone, the father is busy on his phone, he says, well, no one is talking to me, so I get busy on my phone, which one of these is that? This is an activity in which the biggest threat is that someone may cyber bully him, someone may trap him, someone may add him. Now there are many such games where people are also communicating with each other. In online gaming, children are told that relationships are formed through communication. Firstly, this is a big threat where they are chatting with each other, while competing with unknown people. The second thing is that where children see, as you just talked about, children are watching videos, there it is usually seen that a craze develops in children for selfies, selfies with dangerous animals, adventure, like a train is coming, they have to stand in front of the train and take a selfie or make a video and then come and post that video, to show to the people how adventurous they are, how fearless they are. Now, during that time, what we saw was that in many videos, when hands came together and they went in front of the animals, the animals attacked them, so children usually do this. You are understanding that the videos which are posted there, they think that if they also do it in actual life, that would not be fruitful, but when they try to repeat it in actual life, it has been seen that because they are untrained, they get into trouble. Similarly, if we discuss the next thing, like for example, you asked what is it in this that creates more problems for them, is it video games or the other, see, when a child like you talked about messenger, the children who chat more on messenger, I was reading a research in which it was written that the children who are more into like chatting with the people on the social media platforms, their verbal communications become very weak. Like even if I am talking to you, then I do not have any issue while talking to you, explaining my message or explaining my point, but if I stay on the phone for three-four months and I do not talk to anyone in this way openly, then my verbal communications will become weak. And if we look at the world, if you are at a workplace, you have gone for an interview and you want to become a successful person, then you must have good verbal communication. So these things affect the children. Then number four, which has become a big issue among children now, like if you ask a common child how much time do you spend scrolling up social media, he will tell you thousands of times in a day, it has increased anxiety and depression among the children. Now why does anxiety and depression occur, I will also tell you the reason for this, they started comparing their lives with the lives of their friends with the lives of their friends who are not their friends in real life, who are their friends on the social media, like I tell you a lot of interesting things, I know a lot of people whom I have not met in actual life, but I am connected with them on social media, I see that they are leading a very lavish kind of life, they are showing off their cars. So when swimming pools are being shown and kids are watching it, then this thought actually starts developing in them that why they don't have these things. Now they don't even know that the person who is actually showing those things, does he really own them or a lot of people who actually have them do not show them. So, I would like to say one thing about the life of comparing their life with others also created documents fragments that every touch leaves a trace and if I explain this in the definition of forensics, then every digital evidence is traceable. Now these pictures or these videos, people generally think that if they are deleted from the phone then they are gone, whereas it is not so. In this I often say one thing that never make an objectionable picture. If there is a picture that was taken at your family event, that's fine, that was made, but don't make an objectionable picture. What happens with an objectionable picture or video is that It is possible that you send it to someone and you do n't send it to anyone or you make it and keep it in your phone and nothing happens, you don't send it to anyone, it is possible that the phone gets stolen. I have come across a case in which 10-year- old videos went to someone's hands after 10 years and sometimes it happens that many people give their phones for repair and the data is extracted from it. There has also been a case in which these things were present inside the phone and the phone was stolen, a laptop was stolen from the car and the data was present in it. So one thing I would like to say in this is that the content that you create, remember one thing that it is not in your control, it can go to millions and billions of people in the whole world, so here you need to be cautious that don't create such content that you say that I will delete it after seeing it, never believe this, this is always said by those people who have seen that content, now people use this content in two ways, one for blackmailing and the other in most of the cases. Blackmailing for money is done for money. Small children are blackmailed in a worse way. Let me tell you one thing, when such data is shared, the child is also disturbed psychologically, but his career is spoiled for the rest of his life. Here, one should think that the person who sends the picture and I was surprised to know in many cases that usually such data is sent to strangers, not to loved ones, the ratio of trusting strangers is higher. They feel that because he does not know me, I do not know him, so if I send the data to him, then whom will he tell that I got these pictures, whereas that stranger blackmails them in a more dangerous way. First of all, do not create such data, do not save it in the mobile phone. See, I often say about mobile phones that if you have used a mobile phone, now I have started doing a new thing, do not sell it. Many people tell me that what have you said, I often tell them to sell it to their younger siblings. Don't do it, if you have used one thing in your life but there are softwares which you can securely delete by writing it multiple times. See, if I go into this argument, then I have more arguments than this that it can be deleted, it can also be recovered, I have all kinds of arguments. I say that I do n't want to go into any argument. I say that the device that I am using, why should I rely on that device, when I sell it after two and a half years, he will give me 200 rupees, 25 thousand rupees, 50000 rupees but my personal data which is even my own picture is worth more than that money, it is more expensive for me than that or it is more important for me, so I say that you should keep this data secure and the second most important thing is that if you have kept a picture or an image inside the phone, no such application has been made in the world till date which does not have security features. If you want to keep the extent of the phone public, keep it public to the extent of friends. Secondly, two factor authentication in the mobile phone, I am sitting with you, if someone tries to open my account, I will get a message. Enable two factor authentication. You can insert a six digit pen on WhatsApp2. In the same way, put passwords on your mobile phone. Whether someone uses your phone or not, there should be a password on it. Never leave it open. If you want to keep pictures, people make pictures in the phone but there is a request in it. Please, those pictures which you make by going to washrooms hiding from the family members or by hiding somewhere or by coming under someone's influence, and send to strangers in which the stranger instructs you that no, I want such a picture, I want such a picture, do not do that at all. Remember that those pictures are there and later people use such pictures, they earn money from them, they earn money from digital platforms. But now people have found ways to earn money and you must also know that negative content sells more. My request to the children who are watching this show today is that please do not create such data. Save the name of your parents, save your caste, your career. This life is very long for you people. You have to see success in it. In this, you will see happiness, you will see everything, you will also see failures, but do not make this mistake which is a childhood mistake. Thank you very much Jan Saheb. It was a good discussion. Our time with you was spent. Here, Nazreen, we chatted that the simple thing is that whatever you do on the internet, you do it, your children do it, do not think that it is secure and safe. Our guest also said a very good thing that the ideal way is that do not do any objectionable work, any picture, any video which you do not want to show in front of others, that is, if a woman is taking out her pictures without any reason that I want to share them only with my husband, I want to share them with my sisters, then understand that It is not just your sisters, there are others too, you are working publicly, so avoid these things, avoid these things and warn the children from the very beginning because in schools they have to go to computer labs, digital is used, projects are given in schools which they have to do on computer and internet, so you cannot save them 100% from it, stay engaged with them as much as possible, give them company and take a journey with them, complete what they are doing online activities and there are such softwares which you can install in the phone which automatically keeps you aware of your child's activity, what your child is searching, what was his search history, which apps he has opened, how much time he is spending on them, this does not mean policing, you take this information and then handle the child according to his temperament, make him understand and move him, internet threat has become a multi-billion dollar industry in the world right now where hackers extract money from people in billions of dollars and only It is not about the money, as our guest also said, life is more than money, respect is ahead, the respect of a man is his self, which destroys everything, if someone brings such a thing on the mango, be it for money or out of enmity or hatred or anything, then I hope you have resigned from this program, we will continue to be present in your service with similar topics, till the next episode, Allah Hafiz mujhe achhe se sawaare mere bachpan ke sahare, khak hoon main tu [Music] Aasma mamta hai mera baagwa jaroori hai bagwa jaroori hai ba [Music] Ba jaroori hai baab [Music]