A children’s charity has warned of a “national childhood emergency” after a survey found less than a quarter of young people think childhood is better now than it was for
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TikTok, along with online forum site Reddit and image-sharing site Imgur, are to be investigated by the UK’s data protection watchdog over how they use personal information of teenage users.
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A former police officer has been jailed for sending inappropriate messages to a vulnerable woman after she reported that sexual images of her had been posted on the internet without
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The Scottish Government will convene a new task force to look at what can be done to tackle online harms to children as it was urged to consider a social
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A predator who groomed an under-age girl online has been jailed for 43 years after he tried to murder her in the street. Ellis Dismore (pictured), 24, had sent threatening
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The mother of a former police officer who was given a life sentence for child sex abuse has been sentenced to two years for perverting the course of justice, after
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A prolific sex offender from Northern Ireland, who posed as a teenage boy on Snapchat and Instagram to trap his child victims, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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A social media ban for young children is “a brilliant idea” for tackling abuse, the chair of a domestic violence charity has said. Hetti Barkworth-Nanton, chair of Refuge charity, emphasised
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The parents of a teenager who took his own life after becoming a victim of sextortion are urging other victims not to be ashamed and to seek help. Murray Dowey,
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A care worker who joined a group of masked and hooded men and livestreamed them making racist comments on TikTok after a Southport-related riot has been jailed for nine months.
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