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A father is suing Facebook for exposing his daughter to sexual predators by failing to enforce its age restrictions. The girl, then 11 years-old, used the social media site to set up numerous accounts to contact men, and posted and received inappropriate pictures "of a sexual nature" with a man who is restrained from any contact with her.

Fears over the disruption to classrooms from pupils using smartphones have prompted the Government to commission a review into the way technology affects behaviour in schools.

Children as young as eight are taking naked photos of themselves to “sext” on their phones, shocking new figures have revealed. Police are worried by a surge in the number of primary school kids using their mobiles to send sexually explicit snaps.

A sex offender who planned to meet a teenage girl he contacted via Facebook has been jailed for four years Jeffrey Lewis, 55, formerly of All Saints Close, Swanscombe, was arrested after police were informed by a third party that he had travelled to meet a 15-year-old at London Bridge railway station.

Parents concerned their children are offering to GNOC and give away their ASL will be able to decode social media using a language guide launched by government.

Teachers are to call for new guidelines on how to tackle the growing problem of sexual activity among pupils.

An extra hour a day of television, internet or computer game time in Year 10 is linked to poorer grades at GCSE, a Cambridge University study suggests.

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Parents have been warned against publishing “boast posts” on Facebook about their children’s exam results because it upsets other teenagers who failed.

Yik Yak and Whatsgoodly give social media-saturated millennials a new way to openly share campus anecdotes. But with anonymity surfaces bullying and hate

A boy who sent a naked photograph of himself to a girl at school has had the crime of making and distributing indecent images recorded against him by police, the BBC has learnt. The boy, aged 14, who was not formally arrested or charged, could have his details stored for at least 10 years.

Parents have called for a minimum age for kids to own a smartphone - the majority believing it should be aged 10. A new poll by e-safety group Internet Matters has revealed 85 per cent of primary school parents want an age requirement.

Security experts warn that many internet users leave themselves open to security dangers, because of weak passwords.

Facebook Europe's former boss says parents are struggling to "keep up" with their children and understand their internet habits.

Schools in England are expected to spend £196 million of their ICT budget on mobile tech this year, and Neil Anderson, UK & I PPS pre sales manager and enterprise sales for HP, believes it has the power to transform learning in classrooms. Here he explains why...

Two of the most popular websites for children in the UK are Moshi Monsters and Bin Weevils: communities that offer young internet users a range of games, activities, and social features built around rosters of cartoon characters. They also offer extras to paying members, a business model that has recently gotten both sites into trouble with the UK's Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).

Children as young as 12 are falling victim to the revenge-porn epidemic sweeping Britain, a Sunday Mirror investigation can reveals. We have obtained figures that show police are probing hundreds of cases of explicit images shared online or in texts by twisted bullies, just four months after the law was changed.

THE technology revolution in schools has been thrown into doubt by the government’s new school behaviour tsar, who believes children should be kept away from iPads for as long as possible. Tom Bennett, head of a working party to guide teachers on improving conduct in class, said the widespread adoption of tablets was having unhelpful effects, with pupils misusing them “to surf the net, find photos of Kim Kardashian and Jessie J and hurl online insults at each other”.

Mobile phones should be banned in secondary schools in an effort to raise standards, the chief inspector of schools has said. Sir Michael Wilshaw called for more comprehensives to implement a “grammar school ethos” and also take the lead of independent schools where pupils stand when teachers enter a classroom.

So there you are sitting on the train and you get a message on your laptop saying that someone has sent you a file. It’s not an email but a direct file using Wi-Fi. When you open the file a pornographic image appears...This is exactly what happened to a lady while traveling on a train recently in the UK. No doubt a shocking and upsetting event. The media and the police are investigating.