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TikTok to let parents filter out videos they don’t want their children to see | Science & Tech News
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TikTok has launched the ability for parents and guardians to filter out videos they don’t want their children to see. The feature is an addition to the app’s family pairing functionality, which allows adults to link their account to their teenager’s for control of settings like screen time limits. TikTok‘s users could already dictate content…
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Bereaved parents whose children took own lives demand more access to content they were exposed to online | Science & Tech News
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Bereaved parents of children who took their own lives want authorities to take online histories into account when determining their cause of death. The mother of Archie Battersbee, who died in August 2022 after a “prank or experiment” that went wrong, joined other families to demand more access to content their children were exposed to…
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NHS treating hundreds of children as young as 13 for gaming disorders | Science & Tech News
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Hundreds of children are being treated for video game disorders by the NHS, including some who have been driven to attack their own family. New figures reveal that 745 people have been referred to the National Centre for Gaming Disorders since it opened in October 2019, the only clinic of its kind in the UK.…
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Giving children chickenpox vaccine ‘could end risky pox parties’ | Science & Tech News
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Giving children chickenpox vaccines could bring an end to risky pox parties, experts have said. The jabs are not part of the NHS childhood immunisation schedule, but the committee which advises UK health departments on shots is considering whether to recommend they be added. About three-quarters of parents would support routine chickenpox jabs for their…
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Children coerced into most severe form of sexual abuse online, report finds | UK News
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Children as young as seven are being coerced by abusers into filming themselves carrying out the most severe forms of child sexual abuse material, a charity has warned. Analysts at child protection charity the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found nearly 900 instances of Category A child sexual abuse material in just five days. It is…
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Gaming can kill children with undiagnosed heart issues, scientists say | Science & Tech News
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Playing video games could cause life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias in children with undiagnosed heart conditions, a scientific report has found. Investigators said they had uncovered an uncommon but distinct pattern among children who lose consciousness while playing electronic games. They warned that Call Of Duty-style multiplayer war games were the most frequent trigger for such episodes.…
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A third of children aged eight to 17 have lied about their date of birth so they appear to be over 18 | UK News
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A third of children aged between eight and 17 with a social media profile have lied about their date of birth so they appear to be over 18. That is the finding of research commissioned by regulator Ofcom amid calls for more age verification tools to be places on internet platforms to protect children from…
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Incels waging ‘war against women’ and pose ’emerging threat to children’, study finds | UK News
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Warning: this article contains terms and references readers may find offensive. The incel movement is waging a “war against women” and poses a growing threat to children, according to a report that calls on tech companies to intervene to stop the radicalisation of lonely men and boys online. The incel – or “involuntarily celibate” –…
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Crackdown needed to stop children buying vapes, experts warn | Science & Tech News
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Experts have called for a crackdown on selling vapes to children to avoid exposing them to unnecessary risks. Researchers found that although it was clear that vaping was better than smoking in the short and medium term, little is known about its long-term health impacts. Although the study, commissioned by the Department of Health, concluded…
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Robots could help detect mental wellbeing issues in children, study finds | UK News
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Robots could help to detect mental wellbeing issues in children, a study has suggested. A child-sized humanoid robot was used by Cambridge University researchers to complete a series of questionnaires to assess mental wellbeing with 28 children aged between eight and 13. The research found that the youngsters were willing to confide in the robot,…