Here are some tips to help prevent your digital life from being stolen, whether it be a password breach or an internet-wide vulnerability.
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Business Insider (Australia)
29 May 2014
Part of a series on the ways new technology is impacting kids and teens.
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Deseret News
28 May 2014
CYBER bullies should face prosecution, according to a former victim of vicious online attacks.
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Bolton News
28 May 2014
Digital citizenship might seem at times an ephemeral, almost narcissistic, aspect of our life. Too often we neglect the rights and responsibilities that our presence online entails.
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Huffington Post
27 May 2014
The number of young people self-harming has risen by 30 per cent in a year - with the increase believed to be linked to the rise of cyber-bullying.
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Daily Mail
27 May 2014
Tackling bullying has never been straightforward, whether for young victims or adults trying to support them. While most schools will have a robust policy addressing this perennial problem, getting them openly to acknowledge there actually is a problem is another matter.
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Tottenham & Wood Green Journal
27 May 2014
A teaching union in Northern Ireland is calling for urgent action over the impact of modern technology on children's ability to learn at school.
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BBC
22 May 2014
According to a new study by the World Health Organisation, the number of teenagers in England who self-harm has trebled in the last 12 years.
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Daily Mail
22 May 2014
A third-grade teacher at a North Branford school has been charged with harassing a teenager online using Ask.fm
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NBC News
22 May 2014
Research shows that a fifth of teachers have received online abuse from pupils or their parents. Sarah Marsh explores what support is available
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The Guardian
22 May 2014
The UK's data privacy watchdog has said that it would focus on "evidence of damage and distress to individuals" when reviewing complaints about Google and others' search results.
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BBC
21 May 2014
EBay has asked users to change their passwords following a cyber attack that compromised one of its databases.
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BBC
21 May 2014
As our identities become more entrenched on the web, a slew of apps want us to return to an earlier era of anonymity on the internet.
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BBC
21 May 2014
Michael Gove’s overhaul of the curriculum puts coding at the heart of education, combining computer science with IT and digital literacy
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The Telegraph
20 May 2014
Teachers are being increasingly adversely affected by the abuse of social media and email, a survey by the NASUWT
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NASUWT
20 May 2014
Q&A with Cybersmile’s Scott Freeman
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Voice of America
20 May 2014
Most families have implemented boundaries and rules that their kids and teens have to follow when it comes to their gadgets. Hopefully, parents today understand that digital citizenship is as important to their children as potty training was to them as toddlers.
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Huffington Post
20 May 2014
A survey by a Keighley e-learning company has revealed nearly two-thirds of primary school teachers don’t know how to stop children using social networking sites.
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Keighley News
20 May 2014
Schoolchildren in London will be recruited into the largest ever study to investigate the impact of mobile phone use on teenagers’ developing brains.
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The Independent
20 May 2014
Over the last few months quite a few new messaging apps have been released giving young people different spaces to share secrets anonymously online
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UK Safer Internet Centre
15 May 2014