The head of the National Police Chiefs’ Council is suggesting that police should no longer go into schools to warn children about the dangers of extremism and the task should be done by teachers instead.
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Schools Improvement Net
28 Jul 2015
Charity claims there are two convictions each day for indecent images and calls for urgent action two years after government promised crackdown
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The Guardian
22 Jul 2015
Twitter is making another attempt to help users on its site who are confronted with abuse by launching a dedicated "Safety Centre".
Following several attempts to bring new functionality to the site, and alter its internal policies to make abuse easier to deal with, the site is now launching the Safety Centre to "promote good digital citizenship".
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Wired
21 Jul 2015
The commission said teachers should be locking their social media accounts and keeping a record of their Internet use amid concerns students are tracking their online activity to find out more about their personal lives.
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The Educator (Aus)
21 Jul 2015
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after tweeting a bomb threat to a school.
Cheshire Police confirmed that Saints Peter & Paul Catholic College, in Widnes, received a tweet which made reference to a bomb at around 7pm on Wednesday night.
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Mirror
20 Jul 2015
Britain’s online porn filters championed by Prime Minister David Cameron in 2013 could become unlawful under proposed EU legislation, which is due to be voted on in the autumn.
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RT.com
16 Jul 2015
A 16-year-old girl has been sent thousands of death threats after she was shown in a video online attacking two teenagers, a court has heard. The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted robbery and assault when she appeared at Birmingham youth court on Wednesday.
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The Guardian
16 Jul 2015
The FBI has made a public appeal to help identify more than 240 victims of a man who used the internet to extort pornographic images from teenage girls.
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BBC
15 Jul 2015
A new warning has been issued to individuals and businesses about emails being sent by cyber criminals claiming to be from British Gas, Ministry of Justice and Home Office that contain TorrentLocker ransomware.
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Get Safe Online
15 Jul 2015
There were more than 16,000 crime reports involving the two social media giants last year alone, according to statistics obtained by the U.K. Press Association under the Freedom of Information Act.
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CBC News
15 Jul 2015
Results from a survey of over a thousand 11-18 year olds launched today by UK charity Childnet reveals that 12% of respondents have accidentally spent money on an in-app purchase.
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Childnet International
15 Jul 2015
Warwickshire’s director of public health, Dr John Linnane, says figures show that more young people are deliberately hurting themselves.
He lays the blame partly on social media for giving a platform to cyber bullies and projecting images of impossible bodily perfection.
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Coventry Telegraph
13 Jul 2015
North Yorkshire Police have launched an online safety campaign urging teenagers to think about the consequences of sharing selfie photos.
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ITV
13 Jul 2015
Four boys have been expelled from a public school after staff discovered they had been involved with class A drugs.
Abingdon School in Oxfordshire punished the boys after allegedly finding a Facebook page called ‘drugs chat’ which showed them discussing cocaine and ecstasy.
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Daily Mail
13 Jul 2015
An East Hull primary school has warned parents that pupils as young as nine are becoming targets of bullying and inappropriate content on Facebook.
Staff at Marfleet Primary School in east Hull sent a letter to parents last week warning them about the existence of groups "targeting children" who have been the subject of "malicious and unpleasant discussions".
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Hull Daily Mail
08 Jul 2015
The BBC is to give a microcomputer to every year seven child in the UK as part of a scheme to encourage digital literacy.
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BT.com
08 Jul 2015
One third of Irish mums and dads snoop through their children’s Facebook pages to keep them safe, new research has revealed....
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Independent (Ireland)
06 Jul 2015
New Zealand is preparing to introduce a new cyberbullying law from Monday (July 6), which will prevent trolling and other forms of abuse on the web.
The Harmful Digital Communications Bill was passed by parliament last week and is expected to come into effect tomorrow with royal assent.
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Digital Spy
06 Jul 2015
A third of children have encountered dangers on the internet but parents are disregarding the hazards and failing to educate them, according to a report.
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BT.com
06 Jul 2015
After receiving hateful comments about her skin on social media, Em Ford of My Pale Skin made this powerful film to highlight the impact that social media has on the way we perceive ourselves.
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BuzzFeed
06 Jul 2015