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[Link] ‘Death weapons’ : Inside a teenage terrorist network

Read: 4/8/2022 www.politico.eu

When Lukas F. walks onto the site of an abandoned army barracks in the summer of 2021 as part of his training to be a terrorist, he is 16 years old, a slender boy with dark hair. The site is about 45 minutes from the center of Potsdam, a city just southwest of Berlin, Germany.

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[Link] UK Revives Dangerous Attempt to Verify Age of People Who Watch Porn

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

The bill would require social networks, and any websites that allow users to upload content, to enact a “duty of care” that would require sites to proactively remove harmful or illegal content.

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[Link] Most Australian teens have viewed harmful content online but parents in the dark

Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Six in ten teenagers have seen harmful content online, but most parents are unaware what graphic content their children are exposed to on their screens, including drug taking, suicide and violent sexual material.

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[Link] Meta delays encrypted messages on Facebook and Instagram to 2023

Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The owner of Facebook and Instagram is delaying plans to encrypt users’ messages until 2023 amid warnings from child safety campaigners that its proposals would shield abusers from detection.

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[Link] Facebook lets Kazakh govt directly flag harmful content, joint statement says

Read: 4/11/2021 www.reuters.com

ALMATY, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Facebook owner Meta Platforms (FB.O) has granted the Kazakh government access to its content reporting system, after the Central Asian nation threatened to block the social network for millions of local users.

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[Link] Facebook whistleblower tells politicians to 'team up' with US to regulate social media, or be ignored

Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Frances Haugen quit Facebook earlier this year and told a congressional hearing in October that Facebook's products were harming children and fuelling polarisation in the United States.

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[Link] Facebook’s Brand Is So Toxic Zuckerberg Reportedly Wants to Change Its Name

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In the middle of one of the worst crises his company has ever faced, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is not digging in and fixing the democracy-destroying problems he’s created. Instead, he’s reportedly planning to rebrand.

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[Link] Kids and their computers: Several hours a day of screen time is OK, study suggests

Read: 17/10/2021 theconversation.com

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. Even when kids spend five hours a day on screen – whether computers, television or text – it doesn’t appear to be harmful.

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[Link] Facebook Is Trying to Delegitimize and Discredit Frances Haugen

Read: 10/10/2021 www.vice.com

The third time she threw in the word stolen, it almost felt forced. “I’m saying that for the majority of teens on Instagram and the survey—the stolen survey—that was shared in the testimony shows that the majority of teens …” she said, before getting back to her point. 

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[Link] Massive Adult Site ‘Rule34’ Prepares Legal Action to Fight Bogus Homepage Delisting

Read: 11/9/2021 torrentfreak.com

Huge adult site 'Rule34' is preparing legal action to have its homepage restored to Google's indexes. The site's operator says that he believes he's been targeted with one or more bogus takedown demands.

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[Link] Boy, 12, makes £290,00 in non-fungible tokens with digital whale art

Read: 28/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

A 12-year-old boy had made about £290,000 after creating digital pictures of whales and selling tokens of their ownership which are stored on blockchain.Benyamin Ahmed’s collection of pixelated artworks called Weird Whales went viral during the school holidays.

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[Link] Apple allows children to access casual-sex and BDSM apps, finds report

Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Apple knowingly lets underage users access apps intended for adults, according to an investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP), despite having asked for and recorded their dates of birth.

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[Link] The UK finally got Big Tech to boost teens’ privacy

Read: 17/8/2021 www.protocol.com

Social media platforms are suddenly all increasing privacy standards for teen users. Why now, after all these years? It looks like new U.K. privacy rules got the ball rolling.

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[Link] Apple Introduces Parental Control Feature That Scans Messages for Nudity

Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com

Apple plans to introduce a new feature that would scan messages sent to and by child users of iPhones to determine if the images contain nudity, the company announced on Thursday. The move is a major development in the ongoing debate around privacy and the inspection of communications.

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[Link] Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites

Read: 27/7/2021 www.wired.com

German child-protection regulators are on the verge of blocking one of the world’s largest pornographic websites.

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