I can't help them all unfortunately, it's the child I worry for!
Dale (Cyber Safety Guy)
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Ofcom Chair Ian Cheshire says he is overseeing a "wide-ranging" review aimed at refitting the regulator to new duties overseeing Big Tech and enforcing the OSA (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Almost 1 in 5 UK children aged 10-15 have experienced online bullying in the past year (ONS).Research consistently shows group chats are one of the primary contexts. #Cyberbullying #bullying #ParentingAdvice #parents
A dad told me recently what genuinely worries him as a parent. Publishing something tomorrow that every parent and teacher in the UK needs to read about AI CSAM. Follow so you don't miss it. Cybersafetyguy.com #ChildOnlineSafety #OnlineSafety #Safeguarding
On this date in 1936, the Summer Olympics opened in Berlin, and the efforts by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan race” were undermined by the success of African American athletes, notably Jesse Owens.
Snapchat is involved in 40 percent of all online grooming offences recorded by UK police forces. Not TikTok. Not Instagram. Snapchat. And the design choices that make it that way are still there.
Tomorrow I'm publishing the online safety statistic I think every parent needs to see. It is a UK number, from official police data, about the one platform most parents feel fairly comfortable with. Follow me so you don't miss it. #OnlineSafety #ChildSafety #Safeguarding
Meta's smart glasses look like ordinary Ray-Bans. Hidden inside: a camera, a mic and facial recognition code found on 50m phones. Two Harvard students already used a modified pair to dox strangers in seconds. www.cybersafetyguy.com/p/meta-ray-b...
Meta Ray-Ban Glasses: The Privacy Risk to Children
Are Meta’s smart glasses safe for children?
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Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses can record video and identify faces without anyone knowing. Here's what every parent needs to understand about this fast-growing tech. Blog post to follow so make sure to subscribe!
She fed a wild squirrel every day for months. Then it climbed down and offered her a treat back.
Stop Waiting for the Perfect Moment to Have the Online Safety Talk There is no perfect moment coming. A parent's account of waiting six weeks and what happened in the meantime.
The control method parents of teens need to be aware of #CareBearMethod
Dale (Cyber Safety Guy)@cybersafetyguy.com · 2w agoA viral TikTok trend called the "Care Bear Method" openly teaches manipulation tactics disguised as relationship advice. Here's what parents need to know and how to talk to their teenager about it.
A viral TikTok trend called the "Care Bear Method" openly teaches manipulation tactics disguised as relationship advice. Here's what parents need to know and how to talk to their teenager about it.
TikTok Family Pairing: How to Set It Up and What It Controls TikTok refused Ofcom's demands. Family Pairing still works. Here's how to set it up and what it does and doesn't control.
YouTube Safety for Kids: The Rabbit Hole Problem Your child started watching Minecraft tutorials. Three clicks later, they're somewhere else. YouTube Kids, Restricted Mode, and Watch History. Free guide on the CSG resource hub. #YouTubeSafety #OnlineSafety #DigitalParenting #ScreenTime
Free V-Bucks offers, Robux giveaways, in-game currency for a gift card code. These are scams, and some escalate into grooming. Here's what to tell your child. Free guides at guides.cybersafetyguy.com #GamingSafety #OnlineSafety #Fortnite #Roblox #ChildSafety
Tate's arrested again. 38 new charges. Won't undo what your son's already seen. Banning the name doesn't work, the algorithm just serves the next one. Filling his feed with better role models does. #Shorts #OnlineSafety #DigitalParenting #ParentingTeens #ChildSafety
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski: “You know, we are in Europe sometimes castigated as a declining civilization. “But in Europe, we think that allowing people to go bankrupt for the sake of medical bills is not how a good society should be treating itself.”
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Antiland, named on screen in Predator Hunters this year, is an anonymous chat app: 45m+ users, no age checks, points for messaging strangers. Rules say 17+. Nobody checks. Please share, another parent needs to see this. #OnlineSafety #UKParents
By 13, the average child has had over 1,300 photos posted online by their parents. They never agreed to that. Free Sharenting guide at guides.cybersafetyguy.com #Sharenting #DigitalParenting #OnlineSafety #ChildPrivacy #CyberSafetyGuy