1. Due to Australia’s first social networking related conviction occurring last month, now
more than ever social media users need education on the potential damaging effects
of material posted on online platforms.

2. The study conducted primarily at the University of New South Wales in
Kensington has revealed social media platforms are raising huge issues in
terms of privacy, copyright, employment, bullying and harassment

3. The Director of the Cyberspace Law and Policy Community at
UNSW, Alana Maurushat believes cybercrime education should start at
year one, so young Australians can learn the responsibilities of posting
material online

4. Alec Christie, a partner at law firm DLA Piper confirms a way to check if your
content is suitable to be posted online is through the ‘front page test’. ‘If you are
going to go online and publish something online, you need to test it against
would I be able to publish this on the front page of the Sydney Morning Herald
tomorrow’.

5. David Vaile from the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre from UNSW
emphasises the importance for users of the Internet to understand that the
law applies to online platforms just as it applies in the traditional world.
'Because it’s not a physical thing, people just think it's just moving a file, it's
just posting a photograph’ Vaile explains.

6. Problems lie with Internet users as they are unaware of the definition of
‘indecent’. Alec Christie puts it simply ‘There are no hard and fast
rules, but it’s what would make you and I blush'.

7. Joanne, a Criminology student at the University of New South Wales has
experienced cybercrime problems involving her brother, as he faces
bullying over Facebook. ‘He doesn’t know what to do, he just hates school
now’.

8. Despite a Law Reform Commission Report being produced four years ago
based on privacy concerns, no laws have been changed or altered with
regards to an individuals right to privacy which is affecting the legal systems
ability to deal with cybercrime.