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What does a former Federal Agent who is a qualified Australian attorney and a Forensic Psychologist have in common?
They have a passion to identify inappropriate social media behaviour, cyber bullying and related trends with a view to educating parents, employees, sporting teams and legal practioners of the legal consequences in addition to identifying the various remedies that may be available.
Cyber Guardians Online offers affordable Webinar information sessions to schools, parents, sporting teams and companies that are delivered digitally via smartphone/tablet, desktop or lap top.
The Cyber Guardians Online and Future Cops Online Webinar Series are provided for the following:
- Potential Police Applicants. (Future Cops Online Series)
- Lawyers needing to complete CPD sessions.
- Parents who want to be informed as to the latest trends, dangers and benefits of social media and how it is being used by teenagers.
- Sporting teams wanting to ensure players are aware of the benefits and dangers of social media activity.
- Business owners wanting social media training.
- Law enforcement agencies and corporations requiring social media sessions to introduce or reinforce social media policy and the importance of appropriate use at all times.
Cyber Guardians Online (CGOL) has access to a team of passionate lawyers who have experience in criminal and telecommunications law and offer a dynamic innovative legal Continual Professional Development Webinar series that comply with the Law Institute of Victoria‘s Law Institute Continuing Professional Development Rules 2008 and the Continuing Professional Development Rules of the Legal Services Board 2008.
By harnessing law enforcement, legal, forensic psychology (profiling) and digital training delivery experience CGOL aims educate and update those who subscribe to CGOL News Blog and Webinars. Staying current with evolving technology is paramount to remain aware of the current trends, issues and dangers that exist in the digital environment.
CGOL will not only educate individual clients but also offer subscribing law firms, schools, sporting teams, employers and non profit organizations access to a panel of legal and psychological practioners who can offer and range of consulting services.
- Specialized Digital Environment Legal Advice
- Workplace/School Presentations
- Sporting Team Presentations
- Forensic Profiling of Cyber Bullies
The CGOL News blogs offer informative digital experience articles on cyber bullying, harassment and trolling activity and will be an excellent reference point for all online digital material on cyber bullying, inappropriate internet behaviour and related criminal activity.
Additionally CGOL News Blogs contain global case studies highlighting the proliferation of cyber bullying and its related insidious online activity whilst identifying and focusing on groundbreaking solutions and legal remedies across many jurisdictions.
Overall, CGOL will update you with best practice solutions and aid in answering all your questions to facilitate solutions to your social media cyber issues.
In doing so CGOL will also attempt to find civil remedies that may be available to victims of such heinous and unproductive activity to act as a deterrent to any person or organization that facilitates or promotes cyber bullying, vilification and or harassment.
The primary premise that the team at CGOL rely on is the creed:
‘Once in cyber space always in cyber space’. In other words ‘ in the digital world, you can run but you can’t hide……’
It would be greatly appreciated if you participated in our online ‘Digital Polls by clicking the ‘Digital Polls’ tab at the top of our page.
Finally, thank you for visiting our News Blog and by all means feel free to click the ‘Subscribe Tab’ on this page to be informed and aware of the world around you with regards to the digital world and cyber bullying.
Regards,
Bradley W. Deacon
Evidence Gathering Cyber Bullying App
Whycheproof & Shepparton Cyber Safety Informal Talks
Looking forward to attending two Victorian Regional towns to help establish establish the Cyber Safety needs of district.
Venue and times will be posted in the Future Cops Online Facebook page along with ‘Eventbrite‘ Registration links by Monday 3 June 2013, feel free to ‘Like’ Future Cops Online for updates.
All sessions are informal chats with locals to help identify current issues so that formal presentations can be held at a later date.
Looking forward to seeing all the locals on:
- Wednesday June 5 2013 in Whycheproof
- Thursday June 6 2013 in Shepparton
Other towns to be advised via Future Cops Online Facebook page.
Future Cops Online proudly sponsoring regional Cyber Safety Tours
Country Victoria Cyber Safety Meetings 2013
Ask.FM And The Dangers Of Anonymous Questions
Recently I had a client ask me about Ask.Fm who was concerned about her young daughter registering for the site.
Upon conducting some research into the site I found persons asking school aged children the most disgusting questions and what was more alarming I observed the recipients of the questions engaging in online conversations with these persons posting the questions where it got to a point the person asking the sexually based question not being happy with the response and replying with some very graphic language and name calling.
As you may recall I compiled a Blog on March 5 2013, where I advised that it has been alleged in a London Newspaper that Ask.Fm has been linked to suicides and from my observations it can lead to some very distressing posts being made and you have to ask, do our children need to be exposed to such ‘anonymous’ posts.
Upon researching Ask.Fm, I established it is a site where once you register you can ‘ask’ or be ‘asked’ any question and each question asked or answered is anonymous. Whilst this seems harmless, it is once the person being asked questions commences to engage with the person that they may let their guard down and inadvertently share private information that may lead to their personal information being posted.
Whilst Ask.Fm have a privacy and security policy where they encourage people not to share private information and to ‘report’ inappropriate comments to them and to law enforcement, I believe it is a site you need to monitor your childs activity and or discuss if it is best they wait until they are 18 years of age.
I have attached one conversation thread I found by just clicking on a persons unknown to me Ask.Fm link that she appears to openly share. As you can see it appears the person who owns the Ask.Fm site is a school girl and the person asking her questions in the open forum is trying to engage her to answer sexually explicit questions that are highly offensive.
It is here I am concerned that we are exposing our children to all these open communication channels where they and some parents alike are becoming desensitized to abhorrent behaviour.
Circle-no-questions (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A sample Ask.Fm Thread
Ask.Fm Thread 2
Cyber Bullying and Cyber Stalking In The Press
It is great to see media creating discussion around Cyber Stalking and Cyber Bullying with newspapers and radio highlighting what is now becoming more prevalent in society as we all become ‘digital natives‘. Cyber Bullying & Cyber Stalking has been around for quite some time now and with over 1 Billion FaceBook and several hundred million Twitter, YouTube and the like users it is not hard for the numbers of victims to this insidious behaviour increase.
As a lawyer and founder of Cyber Guardians Online focussing on Cyber Crime, I will endevour to assist all persons who are victims of this anti-social behaviour and through my access and collaboration with a leading Forensic Psychologist and a specialised Private Investigations Agency our team based approach will seek to make the internet a safer place for all.
Here is a recent radio interview conducted on Radio 3AW in Melbourne, Australia on 20 May 2013.
3AW Brad Deacon of Cyber Guardians Interview 200513 @ 12.10.wmawww.dropbox.comShared with Dropbox
In The Press
Bradley W. Deacon
