CYBERBULLYING AND DATA PROTECTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA, took place at DIXIT (Passeig del Taulat, 266-270. 1st Floor. Barcelona). onbranding attended as an audience member to analyze the various presentations. The event focused on the need to guarantee data protection, especially concerning identity or sexual orientation.

During the event, various protocols were presented for improving coexistence in educational centers, offering guidance on prevention, detection, and intervention in situations such as bullying and cyberbullying among peers.

PRESENTATION: “Aggression” by Manel Mor, Head of the School and Family Service, and Ángeles Grado, teaching technician of the General Sub-directorate for Support and Attention to the Educational Community of the Department of Education. Presentation Summary

PROTOCOL for detection, prevention, and intervention against cyberbullying among peers

• Manel Mor, Head of School and Family Service (Department of Education)
  • Cyberbullying Protocol (within the Coexistence Project) 2012
    • Main OBJECTIVE: Facilitate coexistence
      • Detect
      • Prevent (through education)
      • Intervene

How to develop a protocol (guidelines) Group into 3 topics

• Educate in values and attitudes
• Conflict resolution
• Center organization (making it welcoming, how to structure bodies to work for coexistence, how to involve all stakeholders)
  • Newly arrived students
  • Students returning after a conflict
  • Within the classroom
  • At the center level
  • Environment (educational function of the center, sports entities…)

Computer application for the prevention of Cyberbullying
Awareness tool: detects the issues of greatest concern in the center

• family
• teachers
• PTA
• external

Co-education

• It asks questions and makes statements, and the center must score them.
• diagnosis
• It proposes actions (wealth of information)

Coexistence Project (PdC)

• Guidelines are reviewed
• If there are new topics, proposals and diagnoses are reformulated
• Allows seeing what centers have done.
• Centers can also submit their new contributions, and they are reviewed.

Types of Cyberbullying

• CHILD MALTREATMENT
• NGJOV (New Organized Violent Youth Groups)
• Peer bullying

Additionally:

• Peer cyberbullying
• Protocol for minor offenders
• Minors and drugs

ANGELS GRADO, CYBERBULLYING PROTOCOL (part of presentation 2)

• Prevention
• Detection mechanisms
• Assessment mechanisms
• Intervention mechanisms

• Interactive circuit (support document)
• School bullying
• Peer bullying

 

• Report on “GOSSIP“: problems erupt from schools, appearing in
  • Centers with quite harsh situations

The protocol has leveraged its existing framework and implements new, specific measures for cyberbullying. These measures are novel, utilize different approaches, and possess unique characteristics.

In-person (protection and detection)

• Online much harder to detect and protect oneself

Characteristic Features of Cyberbullying

• Specific Medium and Format
• Little consequential thinking; thinking develops from adolescence (more internal part of the brain); they are too impulsive.
• They master different formats; from these, other characteristics emerge, making them harder to erase.
• You’ve been tagged, your name
• perdurability
• presumed anonymity
• Diffusion potential
• absolute helplessness
• Insecurity: unlimited access; at home, there was a sense of tranquility.
• You can’t turn off devices because you know they are attacking your self-esteem.
• They don’t tell parents; they asked an adult for help (someone you trust).
• Give me your phone, no internet (NEVER)
• If I’m a bully, I have no brakes. When to stop? In person, if someone cries, if they fall… that could make you stop. Now there are no brakes because there’s no real-time feedback.

Derived behaviors

• Direct threats (Florida sentence, September 9, a girl committed suicide, cyberbullies posted threats and said it was true they had done it)
• exclusion
• impersonate
• steal passwords
• If you trust me…
• Send photos…

Included in the Protocol

• Multitude of actions in PREVENTION, cognitive skills (if we train better)
• Involve families
• Perform a triangulation (maximum number of agents)

Measures to consider with:

Cybervictim

• protection
• Corrective measures for the person so they can work with them to do
• Analysis and Prevention

Person with cyberbullying behavior (not a cyberbully) can also be

• sanctioning measures
• restorative measures
• mediation
• educational measures
• Protection measures

Prevention (provide tools to families and centers)

• Communication, building trust, setting limits, providing guidance
• detection
• intervention

ANNEX Online Protocols

• Prevention and detection of cyberbullying
• Search for links of interest
• Conversations that arise
• xtec coexistence
• xtec secure internet
• family and school portal

TAC (training in learning and knowledge technologies)

• Digital natives or digital orphans
• Work on values; digital orphanhood can be remedied.

“Social Networks and Privacy,” by Joana Marí, Consulting Manager of the Data Protection Registry of the Catalan Data Protection Authority.

Presentation by Elena Boira, Welfare, Head of Support Actions for Families. Social Welfare Councillor

Risks to consider in Cyberbullying and the role of families

• Role of the family
  • virtual bullying of minors and the Role of Institutions

• Empowerment and responsibility
• Channel for transmitting values
• Strength of effective bonds, one of the protective factors

 

• Healthy family relationships
• prevent bullying
• provide security
• climate of trust to detect it in time

PRESENTATION BY JUANA MARINO – Data protection, right to protection: Head of Consulting for the Data Protection Registry of the Catalan Data Protection Authority)

Data protection, especially for specific groups in society (sexual orientation, students, teachers), Depathologizing transsexuality

• Guarantee security and privacy

It is important to aim for action protocols.

• Use of the network (FB, Tuenti…)
• Use of public and private entities as a mechanism to connect with their users
• Or when used as users
• What does the right to data protection mean?
• What things to consider
• Privacy (more Anglo-Saxon concept)
• Dignity
• Freedom of expression

Concepts to consider

• What is personal data? Anything that refers to me.

life data, voice, identifiable “sufficient elements to be able to recognize me”

Right to data protection: control my information

• Anything that refers to my person and serves to protect
• other rights, to be able to control other data, are also protected (on
• social networks too)
• ideology
• religion
• racial origin
• Sexual… (Linked to non-discrimination)

 

• Use of the network (Obligations and regulations)
  • Provider
• Entails losses regarding my image, privacy… 3rd parties behind will be able to
• process it and be responsible.
• I will never be able to control it again.
• Think about our right (Privacy)
• What would we do with our ordinary environment?
• They don’t know the 3rd parties that are being disseminated; they have no contact nor do they have
• reason to have photos of what they do.
• Networks have increasingly more uses
• policies, users, capturing information about people,

 

RESPONSIBILITY AS AN ENTITY in handling information as a user (possible consequences, and our privacy in the hands of others; at least we must inform them)

• Right to data protection
• Good practices

2 notable news items

Study:
Tell me who your friend is, and I’ll tell you your sexual orientation

• Maximum precision, 8 out of 10 were found.

 

The importance of Big Data (Google Flu Trends): Google predicts the flu. We have discovered that certain search terms serve as good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses global Google search data to make approximate calculations of this disease’s activity.

 

REFLECTIONS TO CONSIDER

• Project to our minors the idea that they can better control what they share and how their digital identity, privacy, and security may be compromised in the future.
• Be responsible for our information and that of third parties.