A Legal awareness programme on Cyber offences against children

Saveetha School of Law in association with Narayana Techno School, Poonamallee, Chennai

conducted a legal awareness programme on Cyber offences against children, on 1st

November, 2018. About 170 students of Narayana School, ranging from 8th grade to 10th grade

attended the session.

From Saveetha School of Law, Assistant professors, Ms. Aswathy Rajan and Ms. Arya R along

with 29 students of Cyber law class participated in the event. The faculties and students

explained various forms of online crimes where children are either a victim or a preparator,

knowingly or unknowingly. Awareness about various issues like how to report cyber offenses

and what all are the safe online practices that can be adopted to protect children were

discussed.

The event created an awareness about new forms of cyber crimes like cyberbullying, Happy

Slapping etc. The event was a fruitful one as it helps the school also to understand the new

forms of crimes and what all preventive measures that can be adopted by them as an educator.