Dawn McCarty, Cyberologist, Discusses Cyber Creeps OH MY!, How They Really Can Affect Your Life and The Lives Of Your Children

   Slam the Gavel welcomes back Dawn McCarty on to the podcast. She was last on Season 4, Episodes 62 and 74. Dawn is the Founder of Securing Everything, a cybersecurity company, and she is on a mission to help families stay safe online by transforming concerned parents into Online Safety Ninja’s.
     Dawn teaches concerned parents who have tech savvy kids, to understand that while their kids may be technology experts, they are not security experts. Therefore, Dawn supports parents and advocates for more parental oversight when it comes to their child' safety in the virtual world.  
     With over 20 years of information and cyber security experience, Dawn works with parents to teach them how to protect their families from hidden online dangers. She is an international speaker, author, and educator who combines her education and her personal lived experiences to make her an authority on the subject.
    We discussed how "Catfishing" is one of the zones a CYBERCREEP  trolls and how it can quickly turn into a cyberbully that in turn evolve into PREDATORS. It could be a catfish predator, a financial online predator, sexually motivated predator, all of these cyber-type criminals that do harm are CYBERCREEPS. A troll is there to bring out a negative response and could be a one or two time occurrence. When they start becoming more frequent that is now cyberbullying or cyber-harassment or even a stalker. A stalker may be someone that may not be aggressive but may be infatuated, still uncomfortable and unwanted. We have to set boundaries and space also. The thread can ignite and start with a troll and end up with someone else being a bully, it starts with a troll. There needs to be accountability that trolls do not realize. It's not okay to demonize someone for a difference of opinion and then try and slam and destroy their reputation and spread that even further into the internet where it becomes viral. That's a troll that turns into cyberbullying and cyber harassment. 
   Dawn is working very hard to find a way to fix this to some extent. There is no policing on the internet. "When you start cyberbullying someone then you are breaking the law because it's unwanted content." Law enforcement needs to evolve with technology. 
     Explaining the case of Amanda Todd Story, a 15 year-old Canadian who had committed suicide due to cyberstalking and when she and her mother reported this to the police, they were told to stay off the internet. That is not solving the problem and Amanda deserved safety. Her predator was extradited from Norway to Canada, and he was given 13 years in prison. He was convicted INTERNATIONALLY. This requires INTERNATIONAL LAW to go after people hiding behind a monitor.
    Dawn even talked about her own story of a predator in her life and what could have happened if she didn't hear a certain word out of this person's mouth to send out a RED FLAG to her to go no further. This is an episode every parent should know about.
    
To Reach Dawn McCarty:  http://www.securingeverything.com/
http://www.dawnsyoutube.com/
http://stopbullying.gov/
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