ESTUDO SOBRE OS RISCOS OFERECIDOS PELA INTERNET PARA CRIANÇAS E SUAS PRINCIPAIS FORMAS DE CONTROLE

Abstract

According to the ICT Kids Online Brasil survey conducted in 2019 by the Internet Steering Committee in Brazil (CGI.br) 89% of children and adolescents aged 9 to 17 years old access the internet frequently, 77% of the parents of these children and adolescents teach children using an internet safely, however, only about 50% follow what their children do on it. Without any kind of supervision, the physical, social and psychological risks that the internet offers for these children are many. Even though these risks can be reduced through important actions that can be taken by parents, very little is still done, and this can be related to little disclosure regarding these risks and their main forms of control. With so many children accessing the internet daily with little supervision by parents and guardians, the use of parental control can be a facilitator to monitor what children access, who they talk to and how long they use the internet daily, keeping children protected in the digital environment. Through this research, it was possible to observe that many parents and guardians consider that they make some effort to protect their children from the risks offered by the internet. However, it was also shown that such efforts do not correspond to a surveillance of the use of the Internet in its entirety by children. That is, there is a certain level of risk assumed by parents in relation to the use of devices connected to the internet by their children. Which is difficult to diminish due to the lack of time or knowledge of the parents.