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The purpose of the article is to reflect on cyber threats among children and adolescents, the main cause of which is usually behavior, based on the emotions and needs of young people. Another purpose of the paper is to try to identify and describe mainly the phenomenon of exhibitionism occurring in cyberspace. The problem raised in the article also indicates the need for cooperation of institutions responsible for the safety of young people in cyberspace. An important point of reference, is the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced people to intensify their interaction with each other in the virtual world. Using a comparative perspective, based on data from before the lock down as well as after it was lifted, a characterization will be made of the scale of digital threats occurring among young people. This, in turn, will make it possible to answer the question: whether a real threat such as a pandemic can have an impact on the growth of digital threats.
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Górka, M. (2023). From Exhibitionism to Addiction, or Cyber Threats Among Children and Adolescents. In: Yafooz, W.M.S., Al-Aqrabi, H., Al-Dhaqm, A., Emara, A. (eds) Kids Cybersecurity Using Computational Intelligence Techniques. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1080. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21199-7_7
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