Behind a challenge between children and adolescents for which they use WhatsApp a warning sign appeared. The parents’ concern was transferred to the schools in Córdoba, where they extended the warning to prevent.
A mother told Telenight that minors are added in groups with people they don’t know and where violent and pornographic material is shared.
Maria Jose She explained that she discovered it from a tip from the mother of one of her son’s classmates. “It had caught his attention because they had added him to a group,” she commented.
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“There I looked for the cell phone of my son who was sleeping and he did not access that information. When I saw the content of the group I deleted it, blocked it and reported it because The content was awful. for anyone, but for an 11-year-old child,” he said.
The woman pointed out that everything starts with a challenge in which the kids set the goal of reaching a certain number of members. “With this theme of ‘let’s get to 10 thousand’ then it seems fun to them and they add to their contacts and they are all children,” he warned.
Faced with this situation, he stated that he activated the Parental control and restricted the child’s technological devices “so that every time he wants to access something he asks my cell phone if I authorize.”
How to prevent
Andres Piazzaan expert lawyer in cybercrimes, stressed that in WhatsApp you can set limits “so that someone is not coercively added to a group by a third party.”
The specialist mentioned in dialogue with Telenight that this type of protection must be carried out through settings of the application and from there configure the privacy to restrict these actions.
Concern about violent and pornographic material in WhatsApp groups.
Regarding this modality present in Córdoba, Piazza maintained that “there are several crimes involved” and at the same time assured that these “organized groups” are nearby, in the same jurisdiction.
On the other hand, he highlighted that cell phones leave a lot of information and it is possible to identify those responsible through the cooperation of technology companies with Justice. “If there is a careful investigation it will be very difficultthey would have to be very skilled at eliminating evidence. These are generally found”, he stated.
