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Internet safety

September 2024

  • A teenager texting on a phone

    Australian police are warning about ‘sadistic sextortion’. Here’s how it works, and the red flags for parents

    Children as young as 12 are being targeted by members of online communities who put pressure on them to create extreme content

August 2024

  • TikTok Receives Multi Million Pound Fine In The UK<br>MORZINE, FRANCE - APRIL 04: In this photo illustration, a 11-year-old boy looks at the TikTok app on a smartphone screen in the village of St Jean d'Aulps on April 04, 2023 near Morzine, France. The UK's data watchdog has fined TikTok £12.7m for failing to protect the privacy of children. Recently, following the lead of the EU Commission and several US administrations, TikTok is set to be banned from UK government phones amid security concerns around the Chinese-owned video app. Recently TikTok announced that every account belonging to a user below age 18 have a 60-minute daily screen time limit automatically set. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

    EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone

  • Illustration showing a phone with a pixelated image held in a hand and two sad-looking teenage boys looking at their phones

    Sextortion
    National Crime Agency threatens extraditions over rise in sextortion cases

  • A young man stares at a phone with an image of a young man distressed sitting down

    Sextortion
    How can children be protected from online sextortion fraud?

  • A boy looks at his phone sadly with the Nigerian and Ivory Coast flags behind

    Sextortion
    How west Africa’s online fraudsters moved into sextortion

  • Sextortion
    ‘It looks so real’: amid rise in financial sextortion, Childline is helping teenagers fight back

  • Snapchat rejects Australian push to raise age for allowing teenagers on social media to 16

  • What is the UK’s Online Safety Act and what powers will it provide?

  • Meghan: I’m airing my struggle with suicidal thoughts to help others

  • What’s ahead for Kosa, an online safety act for minors, as it reaches US House?

July 2024

  • a man speaks while women hold photos of children

    US Senate passes major online child safety reforms which face uncertain fate in House

  • Jess Phillips, holding Labour campaign leaflets, walking down a residential street

    Ministers urged to act over physical and online intimidation in UK election

  • Exterior of Internet Watch Foundation HQ

    AI advances could lead to more child sexual abuse videos, watchdog warns

  • Young woman sitting on couch looking at mobile phone

    Love and theft: why is Australia’s online dating app safety code only voluntary?

    Lisa Portolan

  • Children could be blocked from social media as well as porn sites in Australian trial of age check technology

  • Porn sites and Meta among those tasked with drafting Australia’s online child safety rules

June 2024

  • Top-down view of a person holding their phone over a lit-up keyboard with two screens in front of them and junk food on the desk

    Female UK election candidates report increased abuse

    Politicians, activists and charities say online harassment is particularly bad, including hate speech and disinformation
  • Three woman holding their mobile phones outside and looking at the screens

    No dating apps, no dates, no exes, no hookups: what’s driving the ‘boy sober’ trend?

    Lisa Portolan
    Women continue to bear the brunt of online harassment and abuse. A reckoning is overdue
  • An iPhone screen with icons for apps including Safari

    Apple to close years-old loophole that lets children bypass parental controls

    Children can view internet unrestricted by entering a certain nonsense phrase into Safari address bar

May 2024

  • App stores have 'huge disincentive' to remove pornography due to profits says eSafety boss – video

    When asked by Independent senator David Pocock what was being done to make app stores take action on apps with pornographic material, Inman Grant said the companies were not currently enforcing their own policies
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