Acronyms are widely popular across the Internet, especially on social media and texting apps, because, in some cases, they offer a shorthand for communication that is meant to be instant.
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Fox13 (USA)
09 Dec 2014
Internet privacy and child safety campaigners have called for dramatically improved parental controls in cyberspace after Google revealed it is developing products aimed at the under-13s.
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The Independent
09 Dec 2014
Google Inc recently confirmed plans to launch kid-friendly versions of YouTube and Chrome. Pavni Diwanji (vice president of engineering) explained the goal was to keep kids 12 and under safe from unsuitable content on the internet.
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Value Walk (USA)
05 Dec 2014
Twitter has released a new set of anti-harassment tools to target the growing problem of trolling on its social network.
The company hopes its measures will make it easier for users to flag-up abuse, as well as describe more accurately why they’re blocking or reporting a Twitter account.
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The Telegraph
04 Dec 2014
Your child being abused is every parents worst nightmare, but for one couple, it was happening right under their nose in their own home.
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Daily Mail
04 Dec 2014
Social media sites will be pressured into acting against the cyber bullying of children in a new crack down bill proposed by the Abbott government.
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7 News (Aus)
03 Dec 2014
Almost 70% of primary and secondary schools in the UK now use tablet computers, according to research.
But the study says there is no clear evidence of academic improvement for pupils using tablet devices.
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BBC
03 Dec 2014
Video game reviewer Alanah Pearce was threatened with violence and rape on social media, so she decided to take action.
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Sky News
01 Dec 2014
Secondary pupils are easily duped into believing that adults they are speaking to online are teenagers, research shows.
Even pupils who have received lessons in internet safety are quick to assume that strangers using textspeak and slang are their own age.
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TES
01 Dec 2014
Get Safe Online, together with Barclays and Kaspersky, have drawn up the most ‘Risky Christmas Gift List’ in a bid to prevent honest consumers falling victim to Christmas cybercrimes this year.
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Get Safe Online
01 Dec 2014
Tumblr is the fastest growing social media site according to new research from GlobalWebIndex, which notes that its active users grew by 120% in the last six months, while its registered user total grew by 45%.
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The Guardian
27 Nov 2014
Secondary school aged children bypassing teachers' controls to look at adult websites
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Daily Mail
27 Nov 2014
Teachers have been given powers to delete sexting images from pupils' phones which could be covering up the scale of the indecent images circulating in schools and online.
Former culture secretary Maria Miller told MailOnline that children must be taught that sharing explicit images is a sexual offence: 'The worst sort of crime'.
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Daily Mail
27 Nov 2014
As more children use the internet than ever before and one in three even have their own tablet, a new survey today reveals that children as young as five are sharing personal information online with people they don't know in real life.
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Daily Mail
27 Nov 2014
Breck Bednar, 14, died in Grays, Essex, after allegedly going to see computer engineer Lewis Daynes after meeting him on the internet
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The Telegraph
25 Nov 2014
Parents can no longer punish naughty children by sending them to their bedroom because of the rise of Twitter and Facebook, according to a leading private school headmistress.
Social media is putting unprecedented pressure on modern parenting by turning every domestic decision into the subject of "global scrutiny", said Alice Phillips, president of the Girls' Schools Association.
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The Telegraph
25 Nov 2014
The number of teachers barred from the profession for inappropriate use of social media has more than doubled in the past year.
Figures from National College of Training and Leadership disciplinary hearings show that 17 of the 100 hearings held last year stemmed from complaints about the use of social media sites, with 16 of the 17 being banned.
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The Independent
25 Nov 2014
Twitter's rolling out a feature which could instil fear into your social media hearts.
It's letting you search for every public tweet since its creation in 2006, roughly half a trillion posts.
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BBC
24 Nov 2014
Hundreds of thousands of Android phones have been infected with malware that uses handsets to send spam and buy event tickets in bulk.
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BBC
24 Nov 2014
The only way to be absolutely sure that hackers aren’t in your webcams is to turn them off. But there’s a lot you can do to keep your cameras safe on the internet
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The Independent
24 Nov 2014