Time to strengthen your online passwords as it holds the key to your digital identity. Among Indian students, every second child uses a ‘weak passwords’ like ‘123456’ or ‘data of birth’ for their online accounts. Further, around 54.8 percent children share their password with their friends and family.
The WebWise survey conducted by Indian telecom operator Telenor India among school-going children in the country. During the study, the operator tries to learn about the password habits, internet usage and access patterns of this children. The survey is part of the recent WebWise survey on internet habits of Indian school children.
Luckily, the majority of children are willing to approach their parents or teachers in case they experience any cyber harm. As part of the programme, Telenor India employees conduct workshops in schools to spread awareness on safe internet practices for students, teachers and parents.
More than 55,000 individuals have been trained on safe internet practices. Post the WebWise workshops, 81.9 percent children said that they will reconsider to change their passwords and 84.26 percent children agreed that they will not share their passwords with anyone. Also, 72.26 percent of children said they will use a strong password which is a mix of alphabets, numbers, small and capital letters, symbols and special characters.