A CO TYRONE mother-of-three has opened her heart about her teenage daughter's suicide in an effort to warn other parents about the dangers posed by online apps.
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Irish News
05 Jul 2017
Child safeguarding is being used to get away with 24/7 surveillance. The government must not misuse 'child safeguarding' as a false flag in data protection, and apply new rules to everyone but itself.
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Open Democracy
05 Jul 2017
As part of a recent update, Instagram has made it possible to interact more with individual comments and lets you turn comments off for individual posts
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Wired
03 Jul 2017
Limiting children's use of the internet will not protect them against the ills of social media, researchers say.
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BBC
03 Jul 2017
Facebook is taking steps to safeguard profile pictures for users in India with new protections that will stop people from misusing the images. Facebook’s product manager Aarati Soman wrote “Based on what we learn from our experience in India, we hope to expand to other countries soon.”
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BT.com
26 Jun 2017
Faceboook wants to tackle online extremism in the UK with a new scheme called the Online Civil Courage Initiative (OCCI), an anti-terror counterspeech programme which will also help to tackle the spread hate speech within its walls.
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The Drum
26 Jun 2017
Six-year-old Phoebe was building a virtual hospital online when an image of a naked woman flashed across her screen.
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The Age (Aus)
26 Jun 2017
Snap Maps lets users track each other’s movements in real time, but child safety groups are cautioning young people against sharing their location
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The Guardian
26 Jun 2017
YOUNG people need to be taught cyber resilience in schools because they do not feel equipped to navigate the online world, a charity has warned.
The Diana Award, which commissioned research to mark #StandUpToBullying day today, found that 83 per cent of children aged 10 to 16 wanted cyber lessons as part of their school timetable.
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The National
21 Jun 2017
Victims as young as seven are being blackmailed with their own sexual information and images, according to a new report.
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Police Professional
20 Jun 2017
Letting your child use social media is like giving them cocaine, alcohol and cigarettes – all at once, or so we’re told. But there is no scientific evidence to support such extreme claims.
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The Conversation
19 Jun 2017
SOCIAL media firms have failed to tackle online child abuse, grooming and bullying, a leading children’s charity has claimed.
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The National
19 Jun 2017
The word “addiction” brings to mind alcohol and drugs. Yet, over the past 20 years, a new type of addiction has emerged: addiction to social media.
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The Conversation
13 Jun 2017
The parents of a schoolboy who took his own life after he was relentlessly bullied because of his good grades have spoken for the first time about the tragedy.
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Yahoo News
13 Jun 2017
Teachers do themselves no favours when they immediately take to social media to see the reaction to a GCSE exam, argues one secondary English teacher
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TES
12 Jun 2017
Sandra Leaton Gray, the author of a polemical report into internet privacy, says that we need less digital spying and more trust within families
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The Guardian
07 Jun 2017
Internet safety should be treated like road safety and caution with strangers as new figures show frequency of exposure to inappropriate content, says children’s charity
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The Guardian
07 Jun 2017
Fake blind dates and the distribution of compromising pictures are among the tactics being used by digitally savvy pupils to humiliate their teachers
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TES
02 Jun 2017
A study carried out by an anti-bullying charity found that 57% of the young people it surveyed had experienced bullying online when playing games.
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BBC
02 Jun 2017
Thousands of Scottish children have admitted to being bullied online with many unable to stop posting on social media amid fears their devices “are designed to be addictive”.
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Herald Scotland
01 Jun 2017