From Hello Barbie to hacked baby monitors, privacy legislation can’t keep up with the increasingly Wi-Fi enabled world
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The Guardian
01 Mar 2016
Hardly a day passes now without news of companies, governments and banks being hacked. Organised crime has been quick to take advantage of our increasing reliance on the cyber world and every one of us is at risk of becoming a target. In today’s digital economy our personal information has fast become the new currency.
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ITV
29 Feb 2016
One in seven (15%) children has bullied others online, according to a survey published by Action for Children today.
Nearly 60% of children responded that they bullied to fit in with a certain social group.
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Action for Children
25 Feb 2016
An assistant headteacher who sent a 16-year-old pupil a series of flirtatious and sexual emails has been banned from the profession.
Catherine Towey encouraged the pupil's crush on her in a string of emails between the pair while she worked at The Elmgreen School, Tulse Hill, south London.
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Evening Standard
25 Feb 2016
One of the biggest dilemmas for parents in the 21st century is how to keep their children safe online. On the one hand, mums and dads naturally want to protect their children from predators.
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Tunbridge Wells Times
25 Feb 2016
Dionne Younce, 28, allegedly sent 'inappropriate' messages to at least three students - including members of the football team
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Mirror
24 Feb 2016
Spotify are on the way to securing the throne of music streaming as they near 100 million active users and 30 million Premium subscribers.
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Routenote.com
22 Feb 2016
In a nondescript blue and white bedroom, a sombre-looking girl holds up a message that seems to have been hastily scribbled in felt-tip pen, on the back of a homework assignment.
The words, “Roast Me” are an invitation for tens of thousands of users of the open social network site Reddit to annihilate every facet of her appearance, from her glasses to her hair style.
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The Telegraph
22 Feb 2016
Company claims as many as 40% of US teens are on the chat app – but after a series of scares, online safety groups urge caution
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The Guardian
17 Feb 2016
Police in England and Wales are producing new guidelines designed to avoid "criminalising" children caught sending indecent images to each other.
Under current Home Office rules any such "sexting" incident reported to the police must be recorded as a crime.
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BBC
16 Feb 2016
The company called Pindex launched this month, and is a self-funded online platform that creates and curates educational videos and infographics for teachers and students.
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The Telegraph
16 Feb 2016
Pornographic websites will require users to verify their age in a bid to stop children viewing harmful material online.
Companies that fail to put safeguards in place will face civil sanctions under a new legal framework announced by the Government.
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Sky News
16 Feb 2016
Dealing with online risks is a family affair; recent global research from Norton found that nearly all parents (89%) in the UK worry about their children’s safety online – in particular that they will give too much information out to strangers (44%) and that their online actions will have repercussions for the entire family (36%).
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Security News Desk
11 Feb 2016
Many children are leaving themselves vulnerable online by failing to set their social media profiles to private, an online safety group has warned.
Internet Matters said only 47% of children set their profiles to private, meaning they are more vulnerable to being contacted by strangers online and cyberbullying outside of their circle of friends.
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ITV
10 Feb 2016
One in four teenagers suffered hate abuse online in the last year, a major report has revealed.
A survey of 13 to 18-year-olds found 24% reported that they were targeted on the internet because of their gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, disability or transgender identity.
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BT.com
10 Feb 2016
Kaspersky Lab has revealed that one in ten 16-19 year olds in the UK know someone who has engaged in cyber activities that could be considered illegal, which includes everything from cyberbullying to DDoSing and hacking. The same poll - which surveyed 1,556 16-19 year olds over a period of 10 days - also found that a third would be impressed if a friend hacked a bank and replaced its homepage with a cartoon.
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Tech Radar
10 Feb 2016
West Mercia Police said officers had looked into 74 cases of children sending or sharing explicit or naked pictures of themselves on social media or text messaging services to others in the last year.
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Express and Star
10 Feb 2016
Twitter has partnered with a number of specialist charities to create a global expert safety council that will work to establish a slate of anti-harassment features and help protect users from online abuse and threats.
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The Drum
09 Feb 2016
Cyber crime is becoming an increasing problem for children and teenagers.
Almost a third of cyber crime victims last year were less than 18 years old and the number of online crime victims in that age group has increased by 163%.
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ITV
09 Feb 2016
A child born today will grow up in a world powered by data. They will be surrounded by powerful digital technologies, while the world’s information is digitised, analysed and transmitted around them in seconds. In the first week of their life, 3.5bn tweets will be sent.
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The Guardian
09 Feb 2016