This content was created by Robert Siciliano. This content was uploaded by Robert Siciliano. This is a YouTube news segment titled "70% of Teens Hide Online Activities from Parents—Why We Should be Concerned @McAfeeConsumer" (posted July 5, 2012). The clip features Fox reporter Rick Fulbaum with commentary from Robert Siciliano and other speakers discussing a study showing 70% of teenagers hide online behavior from parents, covering topics such as hacking, cyberbullying, teen exposure to pornography, common tactics kids use to hide activity, and recommendations for parental dialogue and software protections.
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developers to apply for FDA approval before then. Well, troubling look at teen internet usage. There's a new study that shines some light on the dark truths of what's really going on on the internet. A growing number of kids are hiding their digital prints from mom and dad. Fox's Rick Fulbaum shows us how they're doing it.
70% of teenagers have hidden their online behavior from their parents. This is up from 45% only 2 years ago. Nearly half of all parents believe their kids are honest about what they do online, online, but the numbers paint a different picture.
One out of four parents are oblivious to how the digital devices in their lives work. Uh, and the kids, you know, they grow up with this. This is what they know. And it's that, um, lack of information on the parents' behalf.
It's what teenagers are apparently lying about that's a concern. More than half surveyed admitting to illegally hacking into social network accounts. And get this, Over 60% of teenagers claim to have witnessed digital bullying, something that's getting a lot of media attention in recent years.
We see cyberbullying. It has really kind of grown and changed over time. The fact that there is a cyber environment has made it so that something that happens maybe as an isolated incident is now something that thousands or millions of people that you don't even know can react to.
And it seems pornography has become the new Playboy under the mattress, with more than 30% of teenagers viewing the graphic videos on a weekly basis.
13 to 17-year-olds in general are curious. As much as half of them are viewing pornography once a week.
Kids are outsmarting their parents, doing whatever it takes to pull the wool over their eyes, with the 5 most popular tactics being cleaning the browser history, closing or minimizing the browser when a parent walks in, hiding or deleting IMs or videos, lying or omitting details about their online activities, and using a computer their parents don't check.
Well, it's really important that they have dialogue, that they explain to them that, you know, it's their job as parents to protect this child until they leave the nest and beyond. And that having that dialogue and explaining to them that not everybody's as nice as mommy and daddy.
Well, he says that parents need to talk to their kids and explain the dangers that they could face because of their behavior online. He also points to a number of software products that
