The dating app Tinder has been slammed for allowing underage kids to use its services.
Kids who are well under the age of consent are able to use the app to meet potential lovers, according to the firm's terms of use.
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Mirror
20 Aug 2015
A manipulative primary school teacher who blackmailed a teenage girl before hacking into her Twitter account to post revenge porn has been jailed for 18 months.
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The Telegraph
20 Aug 2015
Age restrictions have been placed on some music videos following an agreement between YouTube and Vemo and government ministers to help prevent children watching violent and sexually explicit content. However, online safety analysts at the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) have warned that children can easily get around the age verification systems.
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The Drum
20 Aug 2015
POLICE in Tyrone have received almost 1,000 calls linked to social media in the past five years.
The number of crimes in the county connected with sites such as Facebook and Twitter have steadily increased each year since 2010/11, data released to the Tyrone Herald shows.
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Ulster Herald
19 Aug 2015
Music videos produced in the UK that are shown online will now come with an age rating in a bid to protect children.
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), backed by the Government, is working with video-sharing websites Vevo and YouTube to implement the grading system.
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Sky News
18 Aug 2015
Police are investigating a "new" crime of cyber-flashing after a commuter received an indecent image on her phone as she travelled to work.
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BBC
18 Aug 2015
As more kids use mobile phones and surf the web at increasingly younger ages, sexting and Internet safety are becoming bigger childhood health concerns, edging out longtime worries like smoking and teen pregnancy, a new poll suggests.
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Reuters
11 Aug 2015
Partners in the UK Safer Internet Centre, the Internet Watch Foundation, have today launched new technology to help in the fight against child abuse images online
The ‘Hash List’, aims to step up efforts to make the internet a hostile place to share, view and download and trade images of children being sexually abused.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
10 Aug 2015
QUEENSLAND teachers are being suspended for engaging in inappropriate relationships with students online.
More than a dozen teachers have had their registration cancelled since 2009
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Courier Mail (Aus)
10 Aug 2015
Smartphones are the UK’s most popular device for getting online for the first time, according to industry monitor Ofcom.
The change has largely been driven by our increased appetite for video, and its availability with the expansion of high-speed 4G data networks.
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The Guardian
06 Aug 2015
Unless we get control of the screens which now absorb so much of our kids' time, their health and their schooling will suffer
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The Telegraph
06 Aug 2015
Pupils can perform at more than seven years above their expected academic level by using the internet, a pioneering study has concluded.
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TES
04 Aug 2015
A teenager has been ordered to pay compensation to Lord Alan Sugar after sending an anti-Semitic tweet.
The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, sent The Apprentice star messages, including one beginning "old Jewish" followed by a swear-word.
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Yahoo News
04 Aug 2015
A survey of more than 5,000 Norfolk children has revealed a surge of cyber-bullying inside our schools.
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Eastern Daily Press
04 Aug 2015
A teenage girl seen bullying two schoolgirls in a video posted on Facebook has been given a referral order to supervise her behaviour.
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BBC
03 Aug 2015
PM says he will introduce legislation that could see websites shut down if they fail to bring in effective age-restricted controls
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The Guardian
30 Jul 2015
A new study conducted on behalf of London Grid for Learning suggests one third of young people have made friends online with people they did not know before and over half of these have met up in person.
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Schools Improvement Net
30 Jul 2015
Our teenagers live their lives on their smartphones. That means we should do all we can to stop them being exploited
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The Guardian
30 Jul 2015
Police have issued a stark warning over keeping kids safe from internet predators after the shock news that children of primary school age have been sharing intimate pictures.
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Daily Record
29 Jul 2015
The right to delete embarrassing and sometimes incriminating posts from the internet will allow children to become adults without their childhood leaving a permanent mark on the web.
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BT.com
29 Jul 2015