More than 3,500 online child abuse crimes will take place every month that the Online Safety Bill is delayed, children’s charity the NSPCC has warned. The charity said its analysis
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Amber Alerts about missing or abducted children are to be launched on Instagram in the UK and other countries around the world. The feature has been developed in partnership with
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A sleep app which offers a digital six-week treatment programme could be used to replace sleeping pills for people suffering with insomnia. The proposed Sleepio app uses an artificial intelligence
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Millions of older people are suffering from loneliness and are cut off from the digital world, a charity has warned. The Mental Health Foundation, which surveyed more than 6,000 adults
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A campaigner who was sexually abused as a child after being groomed online has urged Facebook to abandon plans she says will weaken protections for vulnerable people and give predators
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Partially sighted people taking Covid-19 lateral flow tests will be able to get help from a new app and video-call service. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) launched the service
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Launched by the Scottish Recovery Network, the Peer Chat podcast shares insights and inspiration from people using their lived experience of mental health challenges to both develop peer support approaches
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Tech giants have come under fresh fire after an investigation exposed hundreds of thousands of hate profiles online. Research by the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) uncovered
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There has been a six-fold rise in UK web traffic to websites promoting “incel” culture, new analysis has found. The Centre for Countering Digital Hate found that UK web traffic
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TikTok has unveiled a series of updates to its safety measures designed to better protect young people on the platform following a major report into how users interact with potentially
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