COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: E-MORAL SCIENCES

COMMON SENSE SIMPLIFIED: E-MORAL SCIENCES:


With cybercrimes being attempted at every other home, it’s imperative to introduce the same at age (and in the way), schools introduce other criminal and unethical behaviours. Around 1,630 arrests were made for cybercrimes (under the Information Technology Act, 2000) in 2011 alone, which is a sharp increase from 2010 by almost 100 per cent. With emergence of smart phones and mobile telephony, cybercrimes have seen a paradigm shift . A flip through any national daily would be enough to gauge the spread of such crimes. According to the TCS GenY survey 2011-12, comprising over 12,000 school students, between the age group of 12 and 18, found that around 85 per cent of students possess FB accounts. The survey further found that, “the average time spent online by 33 per cent of children surveyed is about 60 minutes, while around 6 per cent say they spend more than six hours on the Internet.” Most of these users today access the internet through their smart phones, which are at their disposal at their convenience and demands virtually no checks and authentication. 

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