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MPs to debate Jools Law to allow bereaved parents access to children’s social media | Politics News
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MPs will today debate a change in the law proposed by a bereaved mother who believes social media may hold crucial clues to her son’s death. Jools Sweeney was 14 when he was found unconscious at home in April 2022. His parents and friends who saw him earlier that day say there were no signs…
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How parents and teenagers can tackle ‘sextortion’ as online predator jailed | Science, Climate & Tech News
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A UK-based safety watchdog that tackles online child abuse has warned it is “overwhelmingly” dealing with images taken by children themselves, usually after being groomed. It comes as a Northern Ireland man, who exploited more than 70 children online, was given a life sentence with a minimum of 20 years in jail on Friday. Catfish…
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Major Instagram update to give parents more control with new teen privacy settings | Science & Tech News
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Teenage Instagram users will get new privacy settings, its parent company Meta has announced in a major new update. It is an attempt by Meta, which also owns WhatsApp and Facebook, to reduce the amount of harmful content seen online by young people. Instagram allows 13-year-olds and above to sign up but after the privacy…
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‘It is too late, our boys have gone’: Grieving parents tell Ofcom to ‘step up’ over social media content | UK News
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Social media platforms must do more to stop their algorithms from recommending harmful content to children, Ofcom has said. The regulator has published its draft children’s safety codes of practice laying out the new standards it will expect tech giants to follow to protect children under the Online Safety Act. But two mothers who believe…
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Some parents say online harassment of girls ‘so standard it’s not noteworthy’, study finds | UK News
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Online harassment of girls is “so standard” that some parents see it as “normal”, a study has found. Online safety charity Internet Matters found that 77% of girls aged 13 to 16 in the UK report digital experiences that are or may be harmful. The survey also found that parents “are coming to regard online…
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Parents warned after cracking eggs on toddlers’ heads in TikTok trend | World News
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TikTok’s latest trend, parents cracking an egg on a young child’s head, has been criticised by medical experts over the potential damage it could do. The videos, many of which use the hashtag #eggprank, usually show a parent with a young child in the kitchen. The parent takes a raw egg and tells the child…
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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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Online Safety Bill: Parents assured legislation won’t just target illegal content after amendment criticism | Science & Tech News
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Parents have been assured that the Online Safety Bill will not just hold social media companies responsible for illegal content on their platforms, but any material which can “cause serious trauma” to children. In an open letter, Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan sought to assuage fears that the long-delayed legislation had been watered down after finally…
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Sam Bankman-Fried: Arrested crypto boss hugs parents as he is denied bail over ‘one of biggest financial frauds in US history’ | Science & Tech News
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Former cryptocurrency exchange boss Sam Bankman-Fried hugged his parents after being denied bail on charges relating to “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”. The 30-year-old founder of FTX, has been charged by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with fraud and violating campaign finance laws. He is also being sued. Following…