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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Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
TikTok updated its terms of service Tuesday morning to ban deadnaming, misgendering, misogyny, and content that promotes conversion therapy programs.
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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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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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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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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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Read: 3/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The largest major survey of people who watch online child sexual abuse has found that one-third of respondents attempted to directly contact a child as a result of the illegal images they watched online.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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