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The Prime Minister announces new plans to tackle child abuse on the internet at the #WeProtect Children Global Summit in London

An offence is to be created to stop paedophiles soliciting explicit photos from children online or via mobiles. It is illegal in England and Wales to possess such images but not to ask a child to send them. David Cameron will say there can be no "grey areas".

Tonight Report: “Teenage lives online; could social media be affecting their mental health?”

Thousands of children are at risk of viewing the millions of explicit images and video circulating on the internet if parents do not put proper precautions in place, the Home Secretary has warned.

The chief executive of parent firm Ask.com insists Ask.fm can provide a safer experience, with better protections for children who use its service and reassurance for parents.

After School is the latest anonymous messaging app to explode in popularity in the US, fuelled by students in particular.

A new Norfolk police unit set up to tackle online grooming and child abuse has made 44 arrests in its first six months.

Acronyms are widely popular across the Internet, especially on social media and texting apps, because, in some cases, they offer a shorthand for communication that is meant to be instant.

Internet privacy and child safety campaigners have called for dramatically improved parental controls in cyberspace after Google revealed it is developing products aimed at the under-13s.

Google Inc recently confirmed plans to launch kid-friendly versions of YouTube and Chrome. Pavni Diwanji (vice president of engineering) explained the goal was to keep kids 12 and under safe from unsuitable content on the internet.

Twitter has released a new set of anti-harassment tools to target the growing problem of trolling on its social network. The company hopes its measures will make it easier for users to flag-up abuse, as well as describe more accurately why they’re blocking or reporting a Twitter account.

Your child being abused is every parents worst nightmare, but for one couple, it was happening right under their nose in their own home.

Social media sites will be pressured into acting against the cyber bullying of children in a new crack down bill proposed by the Abbott government.

Almost 70% of primary and secondary schools in the UK now use tablet computers, according to research. But the study says there is no clear evidence of academic improvement for pupils using tablet devices.

Video game reviewer Alanah Pearce was threatened with violence and rape on social media, so she decided to take action.

Secondary pupils are easily duped into believing that adults they are speaking to online are teenagers, research shows. Even pupils who have received lessons in internet safety are quick to assume that strangers using textspeak and slang are their own age.

Get Safe Online, together with Barclays and Kaspersky, have drawn up the most ‘Risky Christmas Gift List’ in a bid to prevent honest consumers falling victim to Christmas cybercrimes this year.

Tumblr is the fastest growing social media site according to new research from GlobalWebIndex, which notes that its active users grew by 120% in the last six months, while its registered user total grew by 45%.

Secondary school aged children bypassing teachers' controls to look at adult websites

Teachers have been given powers to delete sexting images from pupils' phones which could be covering up the scale of the indecent images circulating in schools and online. Former culture secretary Maria Miller told MailOnline that children must be taught that sharing explicit images is a sexual offence: 'The worst sort of crime'.