Press Release -
Cybertip.ca Alert
This
email was sent to all Superintendents and Safe School Coordinators from the
Canadian Centre for Child Protection
In
the past few weeks, Cybertip.ca has seen a rise in reports from youth involving
sextortion. These cases have involved offenders (posing as teenagers) secretly
recording teenagers exposing themselves online and then threatening to share the
sexual content if they don’t pay money (often hundreds of dollars) to the
individual.
In
response to this emerging issue of concern, the Canadian Centre for Child
Protection has issued a Cybertip.ca Alert for parents as well as a tip sheet on
how parents can talk to youth about online extortion:
We
also encourage all parents to sign-up for Cybertip.ca Alerts to receive
information on concerning technology trends as they emerge. Click here to
sign-up: https://www.cybertip.ca/app/en/signup.
