A 19-year-old from Suffolk who suffered horrific burns as a baby in a house fire in Ipswich in 1998 is taking a stand against cyberbullies after she was trolled online for the way she looks.
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22 Sep 2016
It’s being used to fight ISIS, and now, an app developed by a subsidiary of Google is tackling another kind of vitriol — online trolls.
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Business Insider
22 Sep 2016
New students are being alerted to a scam where fraudsters claim to offer a "educational grant" in a bid to con them into divulging bank details.
The personal finance site Money Saving Expert says it is aware of students at major universities being targeted in a new wave of "phishing emails".
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BBC
21 Sep 2016
The warning came as figures showed a rise in children, worried about online abuse and grooming, contacting the charity's Childline service.
Counselling sessions for young people worried about online sexual abuse rose 24% to 3,716 in 2015-16.
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BBC
20 Sep 2016
Northern Irish teenager suing social media giant and man suspected of uploading image
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Irish Times
13 Sep 2016
After months of rumours, Instagram has finally revealed an anti-abuse feature which lets people deal with trolling and sift out spammy comments.
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The Drum
13 Sep 2016
In a world increasingly dependent on online transactions - from paying your credit card bill to setting your thermostat - web security is more important than ever. But one company says the traditional passwords don't cut it anymore.
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BBC
12 Sep 2016
£4.4 million government fund backs projects including tootoot app to let children use screenshots of online abuse to report bullying.
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Department for Education
09 Sep 2016
Parents have been urged to take more of an interest in their children's online activities after a new study has found paedophiles can groom children in less than 20 minutes.
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Irvine Times
08 Sep 2016
UPDATE 5th September 2016 - Statutory guidance for schools and colleges on safeguarding children and safer recruitment.
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Department for Education
06 Sep 2016
Digital education is moving in the right direction, but not fast enough to combat the UK's impending digital skills crisis facing the country – a crisis that is already costing the UK economy in excess of £60 billion, argues Greg McCulloch, CEO of data centre provider Aegis Data.
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PCR
05 Sep 2016
Starting today, a TV licence is required to use the BBC iPlayer for both catch-up and live broadcasts.
Until now you were able to use iPlayer for catch-up TV without handing a single pence or pound over to the Beeb, as the licence only applied to live broadcasts.
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Broadband Genie
05 Sep 2016
A leading children's charity says police figures show under-18s are being criminalised for sharing nude photographs of themselves.
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Sky News
01 Sep 2016
Pokemon Go players have been involved in hundreds of police incidents since the gaming app phenomenon launched, the BBC has learned.
Robberies, thefts, assaults and driving offences were among 290 incidents recorded across England and Wales throughout July.
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BBC
30 Aug 2016
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s appearance as Super Mario in the closing ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games delighted audiences around the world. It also hinted at the exciting possibility that eSports – or video games, as they’re conventionally known – may become part of the programme at Tokyo 2020.
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The Conversation
26 Aug 2016
Facebook's new app, Lifestage, is a social network specifically for high schoolers. But you don't have to actually be a high schooler to use it.
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Business Insider
26 Aug 2016
Parents are at a serious crossroads when it comes to what their teens are doing or seeing online, according to a National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) study of online safety attitudes and behaviors released today that reveals that up to 60 per cent of teens have online accounts that their parents are unaware of and 57 per cent of parents admit that they are in the dark about what their kids are dong online.
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The Drum
26 Aug 2016
New research by the Department of Education has found that the mental well-being of teenage girls in the UK is worsening. The survey, which took the views of 30,000 14-year-old pupils in 2005 and 2014, found that 37% of girls suffer from psychological distress, up from 34% in 2005.
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The Conversation
26 Aug 2016
More than 150 people in Wales have been reported to police for meeting children following sexual grooming over the last five years, new figures show.
NSPCC Cymru wants compulsory online safety lessons to become part of the curriculum.
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BBC
22 Aug 2016
Stay up to date and keep your child safe in today's digital world - A parent guide
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Net Aware
22 Aug 2016