Proposed British rules aimed at cracking down on harmful online content should be beefed up with tougher measures like making it illegal to send unsolicited graphic images, requiring porn sites to ensure children can't gain access and moving faster to hold tech executives criminally liable for failing to uphold the regulations, lawmakers said in a new report.
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The Independent
14 Dec 2021
New Take A Break feature will also be rolled out to Instagram users in the UK, encouraging them to pause using the app after 10, 20 or 30 minutes
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i News
07 Dec 2021
Incidents reported include name-calling, online abuse, unwanted touching, assault and rape
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The Guardian
06 Dec 2021
Exclusive: failure to prevent children seeing online porn puts them at risk of abuse and lifelong trauma, say children’s safety group
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The Guardian
05 Dec 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum computing and digital technology have combined to completely transform the way human intelligence is gathered
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BBC News
30 Nov 2021
The government is looking at ways to hold technology companies responsible for the “explosion” in online scam advertisements, a minister has suggested.
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The Times
30 Nov 2021
A group of emergency services, consumer watchdogs and safety groups want the government to make online sellers more liable for selling dangerous items.
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BBC News
29 Nov 2021
Youngsters who My London spoke to said ‘the police would do nothing else’ if these offences were reported
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MyLondon
29 Nov 2021
Nadine Dorries says government is planning to bring flagship content moderation law before MPs in March.
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Politico
23 Nov 2021
Can the government’s new laws make the internet safer while also defending free speech?
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The New Statesman
22 Nov 2021
The privacy-focused tech company's latest update promises to block invasive data collection across your whole phone.
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Wired
18 Nov 2021
Close to one in eight children have met up with people they did not know in real life but had only encountered online, a new report regarding online safety has shown.
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Independent.ie
15 Nov 2021
YouTube users will no longer see how many dislikes a video has got.
The platform says it's made the change to protect users from "dislike bombing" and to reduce "stress and embarrassment" for creators.
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BBC News
12 Nov 2021
Any bully who knows where to look online can make one of the manipulated videos by using free AI apps. Tech firms need to help protect children
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i News
09 Nov 2021
Online child sexual abuse cases recorded by police in Northern Ireland have increased by 80% over the past three years.
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BBC News
04 Nov 2021
COMMENT Facebook the company is being renamed to Meta, and the social network will be a brand within that entity, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday.
You may think that this is just a cheap and cynical rebranding exercise to mitigate the ongoing controversies in which Facebook is mired. But this move goes way beyond that.
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The Register
29 Oct 2021
Thousands of pages of leaked documents paint a damaging picture of company that has prioritised growth
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Financial Times
28 Oct 2021
A former Facebook employee has told US authorities the company's efforts to remove child abuse material from the platform were "inadequate" and "under-resourced".
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BBC News
28 Oct 2021
Schools using facial recognition systems should consider less intrusive ways to let pupils pay for meals, the UK's data privacy watchdog has said.
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BBC News
20 Oct 2021
Game-streaming platform Twitch has been the victim of a leak, reportedly divulging confidential company information and streamers' earnings.
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BBC News
06 Oct 2021