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In some cases, teachers used apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp to send inappropriate messages to pupils.

British children as young as seven know about an internet 'game' which encourages them to kill themselves, according to an online safety expert. Blue Whale sees young people perform a set number of tasks, the last of which is deadly.

Police have charged an 18-year-old man with the improper use of a public electronic communications’ network.

Senior detectives have warned parents that paedophiles have been exploiting an app to target children in Devon and Cornwall.

Parents are being urged to make sure their children stay safe online over the summer. The NSPCC said the latest police figures for Northern Ireland show there has been a 28% increase in cyber-related sex crimes over the last year.

Firm’s Online Civil Courage Initiative, already launched in Germany and France, aims to help charities and NGOs identify and eliminate hate speach

Smartphones have been blamed for a dramatic rise in head lice among schoolchildren because they encourage youngsters to gather round in groups, allowing the bugs to jump between heads.

Every new technology becomes an object of moral panic.

Tes and ITV's This Morning are conducting a joint survey to gain a greater understanding of the extent of bullying in our schools.

Schools have issued warnings regarding a location-sharing feature in Snapchat which could potentially be exposing children to stalkers. An update to the image messaging app two weeks ago allowed its users to see where their Snapchat contacts were located to a precise point on a map.

Judge dismisses lawsuit accusing Facebook of tracking users’ activity, saying responsibility was on plaintiffs to keep browsing history private

Detectives have written to every school in Northamptonshire warning headteachers of a video streaming app Live.me which could put pupils at risk.

School and college staff question effectiveness of anti-radicalisation drive and say it undermines inclusion efforts

A CO TYRONE mother-of-three has opened her heart about her teenage daughter's suicide in an effort to warn other parents about the dangers posed by online apps.

Child safeguarding is being used to get away with 24/7 surveillance. The government must not misuse 'child safeguarding' as a false flag in data protection, and apply new rules to everyone but itself.

As part of a recent update, Instagram has made it possible to interact more with individual comments and lets you turn comments off for individual posts

Limiting children's use of the internet will not protect them against the ills of social media, researchers say.

Facebook is taking steps to safeguard profile pictures for users in India with new protections that will stop people from misusing the images. Facebook’s product manager Aarati Soman wrote “Based on what we learn from our experience in India, we hope to expand to other countries soon.”

Faceboook wants to tackle online extremism in the UK with a new scheme called the Online Civil Courage Initiative (OCCI), an anti-terror counterspeech programme which will also help to tackle the spread hate speech within its walls.

Six-year-old Phoebe was building a virtual hospital online when an image of a naked woman flashed across her screen.