The encrypted-messaging app Signal has said it would stop providing services in the UK if a new law undermined encryption.
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24 Feb 2023
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is already used in search engines to rank relevant links or pull out key phrases of text to populate knowledge panels. But the release of ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot that opened ...
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16 Feb 2023
As a young girl, Alice (not her real name) logged on to the popular live video chat website, Omegle, and was randomly paired with a paedophile .....
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15 Feb 2023
For thousands of young boys, the former kickboxing champion and social media influencer Andrew Tate is a role model.
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14 Feb 2023
Researchers investigating the impacts of social media on mental health must consider where exactly adolescents are in their cognitive and social development.
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Nature
14 Feb 2023
Xbox boss Dave McCarthy tells Sky News that Microsoft is working closely with politicians on legislative safety reforms as the Online Safety Bill is being scrutinised in the House of Lords, after MPs gave it their approval in January.
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12 Feb 2023
he Online Safety Bill delivers the government’s manifesto commitment to make the UK the safest place to be online, while defending free expression ...
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18 Jan 2023
Threat made during video meeting, where European commissioner told billionaire to adhere to strict rules
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30 Nov 2022
The government is insisting its amendments to the Online Safety Bill will keep children safe on the internet.
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29 Nov 2022
Meta, the company which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has been fined €265m (£228m) by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).
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28 Nov 2022
TikTok is raising its minimum age for livestreaming from 16 to 18 from next month.
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19 Oct 2022
The government must ensure the online safety bill protects adults from dangerous suicide and self-harm content, a group of charities including Samaritans has said ...
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14 Oct 2022
The government has extended two deadlines for the removal of Huawei equipment from the UK's 5G networks.
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13 Oct 2022
‘Longer passwords are more difficult for ThermoSecure to guess accurately, so we would advise using long passphrases wherever possible’
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10 Oct 2022
TikTok may face a £27m fine for breaching UK data protection law involving children’s privacy over more than two years to July 2020
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The Independent
26 Sep 2022
Instagram posts about suicide and depression viewed by a 14-year-old girl before she took her own life "were safe", an inquest has heard.
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26 Sep 2022
Investigation finds video-sharing app may have breached UK data protection law between 2018 and 2020
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The Guardian
26 Sep 2022
The FDA issued a statement on 15 September warning of social media videos encouraging people to cook chicken in NyQuil: “The challenge sounds silly and unappetizing – and it is. But it could also be very unsafe.
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23 Sep 2022
A British head teacher who groomed at least 131 children worldwide using social media has been jailed, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has said.
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23 Sep 2022
Belfield, a former radio host turned YouTuber, will now spend more than five years in prison after being found guilty of stalking four people
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23 Sep 2022