Young couples who send explicit pictures of each other are being threatened with prosecution under child sex laws.
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BBC
23 Jul 2014
How do they use apps? What makes a great app? Which apps do they spend money on and when do they decide to delete an app?
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Voxburner
23 Jul 2014
The eCadets scheme empowers 3-18 year-olds to become the next generation of online safety leaders.
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The Guardian
23 Jul 2014
The EU has recommended that all freemium games have the 'free' removed from the Google Play Marketplace.
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Game & Guide
23 Jul 2014
Sociology students are set to learn about selfies, online safety and privacy as the course is updated to reflect modern life
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The Telegraph
23 Jul 2014
The Registered Digital Institute (RDI), has today launched ‘Friendly WiFi’, the world’s first accreditation scheme designed to verify whether a business’ public Wi-Fi service meets a minimum level of filtering to block out access to pornographic and child abuse websites. ‘Friendly WiFi’ aims to keep children and young people safe from viewing inappropriate material when logged into publicWi-Fi offered in cafes, shops, hotels and restaurants across the UK.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
17 Jul 2014
Microsoft's search engine Bing has followed Google in allowing Europeans to ask for pages to be removed from its online results.
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BBC
17 Jul 2014
How are schools using social media?
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The Guardian
17 Jul 2014
Some of the misconceptions that are often associated with filtering of web content and how effective it is to protect children online.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
15 Jul 2014
A website has been set up to list items Google has removed after the European Court of Justice ruled people could have articles about them deleted from the results of specific search terms.
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BBC
15 Jul 2014
Have you taught e-safety in your school this year? Did your pupils create a resource? Then why not enter it into the Youth Manifesto Competition.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
15 Jul 2014
Over half of England's teachers (60%) are not confident delivering the new computing curriculum, according to YouGov survey results released today by TES and Nesta.
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Ed Exec
15 Jul 2014
Privacy campaigners have branded the school's punishment as 'big brother gone mad' and say they have no right to censor pupils' social media accounts
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Mirror
10 Jul 2014
The Government is examining a Canadian plan to criminalise sending or posting “intimate images” over the internet without the explicit consent of the individual involved.
However, concerns have been expressed that the bill could end up criminalising teenagers for “idiotic mistakes” and potentially land them in prison.
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The Independent
09 Jul 2014
UK trends from 2010 to 2013
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UK Safer Internet Centre
08 Jul 2014
After widespread criticism, Google has begun reinstating some links it had earlier removed under the controversial "right to be forgotten" ruling.
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BBC
08 Jul 2014
Cyberbullying is more prevalent than children being picked on face to face, a study has found for the first time
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The Telegraph
08 Jul 2014
A shadow minister has called on the Government to introduce a specific offence for cyber-bullying which mirrors that of harassment in the real world.
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Dail Mail
03 Jul 2014
Snapchat tends to get overlooked because people think it isn’t social media.
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Voxburner
03 Jul 2014
Teachers have expressed concern that parents rely too heavily on schools to teach their children the importance of being safe on the internet
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The Telegraph
02 Jul 2014