TikTok has announced new safety features which will allow parents to control the content their children see on the platform. The video-sharing social media app said its new family safety
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Images of child sexual abuse can be accessed on the open web in just three clicks, investigators have warned. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said offenders can orchestrate attacks on
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Google and Apple need to do more to protect children with depression from accessing unsuitable apps on their marketplaces, according to a study. The review, led by researchers from Lancaster
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People suffering from depression relate to internet memes which portray dark and depressing content in a more positive way than those not suffering from symptoms of depression, according to a new
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Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa is to offer information to people with sight loss as part of a new scheme. The technology company has worked with the Royal National Institute of
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Standards that would force tech giants to make children’s privacy online a primary consideration have been published by the UK’s data regulator. The final Age Appropriate Design Code has been
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Gaming companies risk “setting kids up for addiction” by including gambling tasks in their video games, the director of mental health for the NHS said. The firms should either ban
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Social media giants should be forced to hand over data and pay towards research into their potential harms, a new report backed by the father of Molly Russell argues. Concerns
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About a third of explicit images of children found online by an internet watchdog are selfies, new figures show. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) took action over 124,605 images of
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More than six in 10 women feel inadequate after seeing images of slim, toned women on social media, research has suggested. A new poll of 1,962 women for Sport England
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