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
More than three-quarters of children aged 10 to 12 in the UK have social media accounts, even though they are below the age limit, a survey for BBC Newsround suggests.
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BBC
09 Feb 2016
Today is Safer Internet Day, but do any of us actually know what Britain's youth are getting up to online?
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Trusted Reviews
09 Feb 2016
Survey of 13- to 18-year-olds reveals teenagers with disabilities and those from minority ethnic backgrounds are more likely to encounter cyberbullying
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The Guardian
09 Feb 2016
With reports of cyberbullying on the rise, a guide to what Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram are doing, and whether it’s enough
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The Guardian
09 Feb 2016
Horrified teachers at a Church of England primary school have spotted children as young as four acting out scenes from the X-rated video game Grand Theft Auto V.
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Daily Mail
08 Feb 2016
Twitter has suspended over 125,000 accounts for 'terrorism' related largely to ISIS after calls from the US government and European Union for social media companies to prevent radicalisation and violent extremism online.
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The Drum
08 Feb 2016
Mobile messaging service WhatsApp is now used by a billion people every month, Facebook has reported.
The Facebook-owned app now outperforms the social network's own Messenger mobile app, which has 800 million monthly users.
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BBC
02 Feb 2016
The theme of Safer Internet Day 2016 is, 'Play your part online for a better internet.'
One way to do this is to be a good friend to others online and spread positivity whenever you can.
How would you deal with these dilemmas?
Take this fun quiz now and find out...
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UK Safer Internet Centre
01 Feb 2016
Natasha Devon helps young people feel better about their bodies and yet receives regular online abuse herself
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The Telegraph
26 Jan 2016
Vast amounts of personal, behavioural and academic data about children are being collected, processed and used by schools, local authorities, and the government every year.
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The Conversation
26 Jan 2016
Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old boy who loved gaming, was groomed online and murdered in 2014. His mother, Lorin LaFave, was worried – would her pleas for help from police have been taken more seriously if he’d been a girl?
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The Guardian
26 Jan 2016
Young people are spending more time playing and socialising online than watching television programmes, according to an annual survey tracking children's media behaviour in the UK.
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BBC
26 Jan 2016
Pupils at a top public school have been duped into posting explicit images of themselves online in a 'sexting' scam.
Parents at Dauntsey's, one of Britain's oldest public schools and popular with Foreign Office and military families, have been warned that 42 pupils were targeted.
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Daily Mail
25 Jan 2016
Internet search engines are not a “substitute for knowledge” and technology cannot replace good teachers, Nicky Morgan said today.
While the education secretary said she and her government were “excited” by the possibilities that technology could offer the profession, she warned that it could not be a replacement for good teaching.
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TES
21 Jan 2016
ASKfm today (19 January) revealed the top 20 trending list of slang words and acronyms posted in the app, which houses 150 million members in more than 150 countries, to help parents better understand the ever-expanding and changing lingo of the youth demographic.
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The Drum
20 Jan 2016