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45% of parents share details of their children online and overestimate the effectiveness of privacy settings on social media accounts

Researchers at the University of Southampton have warned of the dangers of 'sharenting'.

Researchers at the University of Southampton are warning of the dangers of posting your children's photos online.

X has lost its legal challenge to Ireland’s Online Safety Code, after the High Court upheld the media regulator’s authority to impose stricter platform rules, finding them consistent with both the EU’...

Ofcom is the UK’s regulator for the communications services that we use and rely on each day. We regulate broadband, home phone and mobile services, TV, radio and video on demand services, oversee the...

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Ofcom ‘considering the concerns’ raised after claim that up to 90% of risk assessments will be carried out by AI

Melanie Dawes says rules will protect children from harmful content but campaigners are unconvinced The UK’s chief media regulator has promised age verification checks will prove a “really big moment” in the battle to keep children safe online, even as campaigners warn she needs to take tougher action against big technology companies. Melanie Dawes, the head of Ofcom, said on Sunday that the new checks, which have to be in place later this month, would prove a turning point in regulating the behaviour of the world’s biggest online platforms. Continue reading...

The tech giants both expressed concern at the rulings, but said they will co-operate with investigations.

The platform will bring in the measures from 14 July to stop under-18s looking at "certain mature content".