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A recent survey has emphasised the need for tougher laws to tackle cyber bullying. The survey, conducted by Kevin Healey, a leading anti-bullying campaigner, revealed that 90.9% of respondents acknowledged the need to implement new laws to fight against the menace of online trolls.

A 12-year-old boy tried to re-enact scenes from a porn film he watched in school on the internet by raping his younger sister, a court heard. The schoolboy searched for the hardcore films with a classmate - before going home to copy what he had seen.

AS the surge in smartphones means grooming of innocent children can take place anytime, anywhere - RECORD VIEW insists education is key to protecting our children from paedophiles.

John Carr, of Children's Charities Coalition on Internet Safety, says it is also about what other people sitting nearby might bring up on their screens.

Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned that the democratic nature of the net is threatened by a "growing tide of surveillance and censorship"

The NSPCC and Channel 4's teen drama Hollyoaks are tackling "sexting" - the sending of explicit texts, images and videos - in an ad campaign and in a new plot aired this week. The Duchess of Cambridge even addressed the issue at a charity conference.

People must improve their digital skills and confidence to interact online in order to manage their health, writes the Chief Executive of the Tinder Foundation.

Recent research by the University of Michigan suggested that the more people checked Facebook, the worse they felt about their own lives. Can this new social network help us feel better about ourselves?

Our growing reliance on the Internet for fact-checking and other basic information has resulted in growing levels of forgetfulness, according to scientists.

Twitter and Facebook should let users block anonymous messages if they are serious about stopping bullying and trolling on social media sites, David Cameron's adviser on child internet safety has said.

Pupils have been warned that using smartphones to record secret videos of teachers or classmates could result in the police being called.

To tie in with Anti-bullying Week 2013, Zurich Municipal's Martin Clemmit offers some bullying prevention tips for schools

The word has evolved from a niche social media tag into a mainstream term for a self-portrait photograph, the editors said. Research suggested its frequency in the English language had increased by 17,000% in the last year, they added.

C4's Hollyoaks and the NSPCC are tackling '­sexting' in a storyline and new ad campaign. Can the moves help to protect vulnerable teenagers?

The UK's key internet monitoring service is to begin investigating illegal child abuse material on restricted parts of the internet that it does not have access to.

SOME parents could be unintentionally exposing their children to risk, including bullying, by setting them up social media accounts before they are old enough, a charity has warned.

Leading search engine companies Google and Microsoft have agreed measures to make it harder to find child abuse images online.

A new NSPCC report - Younger children and social networking sites: a blind spot - has highlighted the risks to younger children who join social networking sites without meeting the minimum age requirement.

Almost a quarter of 11 and 12-year-olds who use social media have been upset by something on it over the last year, a children's charity has warned.

Sexting, cyberbullying lawsuits, multi-billion dollar valuations – a warts-and-all primer on the planet's hottest social app