More teenagers have developed tics since the start of the pandemic but they don’t have Tourettes, says professor Jon Stone who researches functional neurological disorder (FND).
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29 Jul 2022
There is an obvious solution to regulating the internet – put young people first.
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The New Statesman
26 Jul 2022
The Conservatives have kicked the sprawling document, which aimed for a political Goldilocks zone and ended up a hot mess, firmly down the road
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The Guardian
16 Jul 2022
Instagram is exploring new ways for teenagers to verify their age and comply with platform rules.
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BBC News
24 Jun 2022
Data Reform Bill will increase financial penalties for those pestering people with nuisance calls and minimise number of annoying cookie pop-ups people see on the internet.
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Gov.uk
17 Jun 2022
A new system for classifying images will help stop them being shared online, a UK charity says.
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BBC News
06 Jun 2022
Facial recognition company Clearview AI has been fined more than £7.5m by the UK's privacy watchdog and told to delete the data of UK residents.
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BBC News
23 May 2022
YouTube has taken down more than 70,000 videos and 9,000 channels related to the war in Ukraine for violating content guidelines ...
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The Guardian
22 May 2022
Emily Clarkson, daughter of Jeremy Clarkson, has said she gets “cyberflashed relentlessly” on Instagram and criticised the social media platform for not doing enough to stop the behaviour.
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The Independent
15 May 2022
An investigator who helps to get images of child abuse removed from the internet has warned of worrying trends and compared her job to fighting a war.
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BBC News
25 Apr 2022
Children as young as five use social media, despite most platforms having rules users must be over the age of 13.
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BBC News
29 Mar 2022
Anti-virus software could be particularly sensitive because of their ‘high level of invasiveness’
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The Independent
21 Mar 2022
New measures include tougher and quicker criminal sanctions for tech bosses and new criminal offences for falsifying and destroying data
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Gov.uk
17 Mar 2022
The government is to introduce its long-awaited Online Safety Bill in Parliament on Thursday.
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BBC News
16 Mar 2022
Details of UK online safety bill to be unveiled in bid to take on Big Tech
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Financial Times
16 Mar 2022
Nation's cybersecurity agency has doubts about Russian firm's reliability
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The Register
15 Mar 2022
Cyberflashing will become a criminal offence, punishable by up to two years in jail, under new laws to be introduced in the government’s upcoming online safety bill, which it has said will be rolled out “as soon as possible”.
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15 Mar 2022
Social media sites and search engines could soon have to stop paid-for scam adverts appearing by law.
The updated proposal is part of the Online Safety Bill, a piece of landmark legislation trying to determine how sites deal with harmful content.
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BBC News
09 Mar 2022
Social media and search engines would have to prevent and remove fraudulent ads
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Financial Times
08 Mar 2022
Cookies are on the way out—but not enough is being done about browser fingerprinting. So what is it?
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Wired
26 Feb 2022