Category: Online abuse

Record number of young in the UK ‘at risk of exploitation’ this summer

Barnardo’s fears the cost of living crisis will leave families unable to afford holiday activities, leaving children prey to sexual predators online and criminal gangs on the street A record number of children are at risk...

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Campaigners welcome Kate Winslet plea about online safety and children

Actor urged ‘people in power’ to criminalise harmful digital content when she accepted Bafta award Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalise...

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UK peers call for code of practice on protecting women on social media

Nicky Morgan says aim of amendment to online safety bill is to make sites consider how to keep female users safeSocial media platforms would be required to follow regulatory guidelines protecting women and girls from online...

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Online safety bill needs tougher rules on misogyny, say peers

Nicky Morgan and other Tory peers plan amendment to boost Ofcom’s powers to penalise social media firmsTougher rules are needed to target misogyny online as part of the online safety bill, a group of peers has said.Under...

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Labour pledges to toughen ‘weakened and gutted’ online safety bill

Shadow culture secretary Lucy Powell vows to target algorithms that bombard children with harmful content if party wins powerTough new laws that would protect children from being bombarded with seriously harmful online material,...

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SNP MP faces inquiry for exposing how Nadine Dorries avoided punishment for misleading MPs – UK politics live

MPs vote for John Nicolson to face privileges investigation amid Commons anger over releasing Dorries-related exchange with SpeakerThe Fire Brigades Union has said that its members will start voting on 5 December on whether to...

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No 10 refuses to deny plans for ‘safe country’ list where asylum seekers could be returned to quickly – UK politics live

PM’s spokesperson does not deny report saying Home Office wants list of countries whose citizens would largely not qualify for asylumThe Fire Brigades Union has said that its members will start voting on 5 December on...

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Culture secretary says revised online safety bill would still block content of kind seen by Molly Russell – UK politics live

Latest updates: bereaved families say bill has been ‘watered down’ but Michelle Donelan says it has ‘common-sense tweaks’The Fire Brigades Union has said that its members will start voting on 5 December...

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