CBSE Cyber Safety Handbook Warns Teenagers On Revenge Pornography, Sets Limits To Online Friendships

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Source: The Hindustan Times

Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) wants teenagers to ensure safety against cyber crime in the virtual world and therefore releases a warning against “revenge pornography”, setting limits to online friendships, valuing consent and reporting to elders if faced with a problem.

The CBSE has issued a Cyber Safety handbooks to schools for students of class 9 to 12 which consists of guidelines for students as well as parents along with listing of do’s and don’ts and understand the sensitivity of the issue.

“Students must learn to limit their online friendships and limit what they share and exchange in form of text messages, videos, photos, etc. They should remember that when they put their information online, they are not in control of who sees them or misuse them,” an official said.

“Teenagers need to understand gender relations. Boys must learn to interact with girls on equal terms and respect them and their desires as those of human beings, not simply as objects of respect or desires,” the official said.

The board has asked the parents to empower their kids to decide for themselves how others use their information by requiring their consent. As there is no minimum age of digital consent in India, cyber groomers can exploit one physically, sexually or emotionally.

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The handbook warns against falling into the trap of revenge pornography. “Teenagers in the age-group of 14 to 18 years are the worst victims of revenge porn as well as the perpetrators themselves, which is a matter of concern. Some teenage students who have been in a relationship and end it find their explicit photographs circulated on social media platforms. When such images go viral, students are often harassed and bullied by their peers – branded with insult and in the end, isolated,” the handbook states.

Earlier this month, a massive outrage erupted online after it emerged that an Instagram group named ‘‘bois locker room’‘ was being used by some persons to share objectionable pictures of minor girls and discuss illegal acts including rape.

People posted purported screenshots of crude conversations among members of the group – believed to be students of some top schools in Delhi and some allegedly as young as 13. It is alleged that they shared photos of teenage girls and made explicit comments about their looks.

However, during its investigation into the ‘Bois Locker Room’ case, the Delhi police has stumbled upon a conversation on Snapchat where a girl, posing as a male, suggested a “sexual assault plan” to a boy just to test his “values and character”.

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