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Internet safety

August 2024

  • A line of police in riot gear face a crowd of people in a road

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

    New laws expected to come into force in 2025 are under spotlight after online planning of far-right riots in England
  • Side by side, Meghan smiling

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

    Duke and Duchess of Sussex appear on US television to publicise project to tackle child safety online
  • Three men wearing suits stand at a conference, with one speaking at a podium

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

    Act pushing social media reforms for children passed 91-3 in Senate but still faces a long road ahead in 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

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

  • Closeup of a person using a phone

    UK mother of boy who killed himself seeks right to access his social media

  • a woman's hands using a laptop keyboard

    More than 300m children victims of online sexual abuse every year

  • Girl lying under a cover in bed looking at her smartphone

    MPs urge under-16s UK smartphone ban and statutory ban in schools

  • First companies sign up to AI safety standards on eve of Seoul summit

  • Full Story
    Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones? – Full Story podcast

  • TechScape newsletter
    TechScape: The new law that could protect UK children online – as long as it works

  • Today in Focus
    Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones?

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