The saddest thing about the internet is the way we have allowed it to become dominated by tedious trolls and online lynch mobs
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The Telegraph
23 Mar 2015
PRIMARY schools across Fife are being urged to warn pupils about a chat site (Omegle) which is causing “real concern” about children's safety.
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Dunfirmline Press
23 Mar 2015
Teachers should caution students that engaging in “sexting” and revenge porn could result in a criminal conviction, according to new guidance.
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TES
23 Mar 2015
A teacher has been sacked after allegedly texting a girl from his bath: ‘Wish you were here’.
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Mirror
19 Mar 2015
Racist, sexist, and mocking messages sent to children and teenagers - and even some encouraging suicide - have been read out in a new video to highlight the dangers of cyberbullying.
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ITV
19 Mar 2015
At the end of last year, Twitter began to focus in earnest on upgrading its suite of tools designed to help users dealing with abuse, threats, and other forms of harassment that took place on its service. Today, the company is making yet another change along these same lines – it’s adding a new feature that will make it easier for affected users to report abuse to law enforcement.
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TechCrunch
18 Mar 2015
Research into cyber bullying has found it frequently leads to depression, binge drinking, theft and violent behaviour.
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ABC News (Aus)
18 Mar 2015
Can issuing students with iPads instead of textbooks make a difference to their education?
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The Telegraph
17 Mar 2015
On Tuesday 10th February thousands of people across the UK joined in activities to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2015.
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UK Safer Internet Centre
16 Mar 2015
The UK's 11-year-olds will be issued with a basic computer by publicly-funded broadcaster the BBC this year, to encourage them to get into coding.
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cnet
16 Mar 2015
Isabella Sorley, from Gosforth, Newcastle, spoke as figures reveal hundreds of people have been charged for trolling across the North
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Chronicle Live
16 Mar 2015
A specialist police team investigating the most serious and complex cases of online child abuse have arrested 50 suspects in Northern Ireland in the last year.
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Farming Life
16 Mar 2015
"We are creating for ourselves a frightening world where the best way to survive is to be bland,” says journalist and documentary maker Jon Ronson, of the culture that is developing as a result of people routinely taking to social media to shame strangers, in many cases for nothing more than a bad joke.
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The Argus
11 Mar 2015
Micheal Hendry has been declared unfit to teach after a series of inappropriate messages to two female pupils - where he called them “sweetie”, “sweetheart” and “sweetpea” - came to light.
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Mirror
11 Mar 2015
Education secretary says all schoolchildren must be taught to navigate modern social issues brought on by the internet age
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The Guardian
11 Mar 2015
Cyberbullying has become a worrying internet trend - and a new study has revealed that 9.3% of teenagers actively admit to bullying other children online.
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Mirror
10 Mar 2015
ChildLine’s latest report, Under Pressure, outlines the challenges and pressures young people are facing online.
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Childnet International
10 Mar 2015
British police forces have charged or cautioned as many as 6,329 people for sending malicious messages between November 2010 and November 2013.
Many of the trolls were charged or cautioned under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 which punishes "improper use of public electronic messages" which are "grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character".
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Mirror
05 Mar 2015
One mum has told how her 10-year-old daughter was left hysterical after a man repeatedly contacted her using the free video chat app Oovoo
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Manchester Evening News
04 Mar 2015
Changes to improve safety and content issues on Twitter will be rolled out from today (27 February), and should reach all users in the coming weeks.
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The Drum
02 Mar 2015