Parents will find a variety of useful information and advice on the many aspects of interent safety which applies to children, teens, and also parents themselves.
The IWF and the NSPCC’s Childline UK have launched a Sexual Image Removal Tool for Children. This will afford some comfort to parents and children where sexual content has been shared online.
The introduction of a new WhatsApp Privacy Policy after the latest update has revealed some terms and conditions, which are of great concern to privacy advocates.
Why is it essential for empathy to be taught in Irish schools. For a start, when a baby is born, their mind is a clean slate. What children are exposed to decides what’s hard coded in to them. This ultimately dictates, what type of an individual the child will eventually become. Bad coding, leads to a bug ridden program, which leads to issues and problems.
The passing of incredibly recognisable individuals, those who featured strongly in the media we consumed while growing up, can give rise to strong nostalgic memories of childhood.
Today Mastercard suddenly reveald that it would no longer process payments for Pornhub, one of the world’s most popular adult websites, after it found “unlawful content” on the platform.
This comes in the wake of serious allegations that Pornhub not only hosted sexual assault, revenge porn and child abuse, they monatised and profited from the content.
TikTok and Instagram Reels are the social media platforms known for light-hearted dancing and memes that have brought an element of seemingly harmless fun into the dark days of Covid for many of us. But as Anne-Marie Tomchak reports, are we nonchalantly uploading content of our children having fun and ignoring the darker side of…
Apple on Thursday released multiple security updates to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities that were revealed as being actively exploited in the wild. Rolled out as part of its iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS updates, the flaws reside in the FontParser component and the kernel, allowing adversaries to remotely execute arbitrary code and run malicious programs…
A highly organised online propaganda drive, on popular Social Media platforms YouTube, Instagram and Twitter has seen “Britain’s most notorious child-sex offenders attempt to rebrand paedophilia, as a harmless sexual preference”.
A new threat has emerged, and it is putting puts both adults and children at risk of appearing in pornographic videos. A number of women found to their horror, images put on their own Social Media profiles, were superimposed, over the faces of porn actress in videos. The seamlessly grafted images in these videos…
A 13 year old Scottish school boy, Ben McKenzie took his own life as a result of being bullied online it was reported this week. MP Paul Masterson described the young man’s experience online, as a campaign of cruel online abuse. On the 1st of October 2018, Ben was found dead at home, a victim and one of growing number of young people who have suffered as a direct result of their interactions with others online.Parents are left with the question, what can they do?
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