Round-the-clock surveillance of students’ accounts raises tricky privacy concerns. And do they really help keep kids safe? In the midst of a pandemic and a national uprising, Teeth Logsdon-Wallace was kept awake at night last summer by the constant sounds of helicopters and sirens. For the 13-year-old from Minneapolis, who lives close to where George …
Mothers describe their daughters’ dangerous experiences after whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Michelle noticed her teenage daughters were spending substantially more time on Instagram. The girls were feeling isolated and bored during lockdown, the Arizona mom, who has asked to only be identified by her first name to maintain her children’s …
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A high court judge has ruled that Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum hacked the phone of his ex-wife Princess Haya using Pegasus spyware. In this episode we look at the implications of the affair Earlier this year we brought you an investigation into the use of controversial spyware called Pegasus. As part of that series …
Dubai’s ruler and the Pegasus phone hacking exposed in a UK court Read More »
TikTok | Children’s books | Child refugees | Travelling fairs | Duels It isn’t TikTok that’s letting kids see inappropriate posts, it’s their parents (Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine, 8 October). There are controls that can stop young people signing up; it’s up to their parents and guardians …
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According to one survey, 81% of teachers in America said their schools monitor devices. Students are not always aware When the pandemic started last year, countless forms of inequality were exposed – including the millions of American families who don’t have access to laptops or broadband internet. After some delays, schools across the country jumped …
Failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet hampering developing economies and fuelling gender inequality A failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet has cost low-income countries $1tn (£730bn) over the past decade and could mean an additional loss of $500bn by 2025 if governments don’t take action, according to …
Digital gender gap: men 50% more likely to be online in some countries – report Read More »
Lindy Cameron, head of National Cyber Security Centre, says extortion is most serious online threat to UK Cybercriminals from Russia and neighbouring states are behind the majority of online extortion conducted against businesses and other organisations in Britain, according to the chief of the UK’s cybersecurity agency. Lindy Cameron, the chief executive of the National …
Russia and nearby states are origin of most ransomware, says UK cyber chief Read More »
Modern video games now exist in a bewildering mass of interconnected genres and sub-genres: here’s your guide to the most interesting This term is a portmanteau derived from two beloved games that arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in the mid-1980s, Metroid and Castlevania, and is usually applied to 2D games in which the world …
Dungeon crawler or looter shooter? Nine video game genres explained Read More »
Corinne and Luke, both 31, met online in August 2013 when they bonded over a video game. They now live together in London In August 2013, Corinne was living with her family in north London and working in a dull admin job. “I was playing a lot of video games as an escape,” she says. …
How we met: ‘While everyone else was slaying dragons we started talking on voice chat’ Read More »
Heartbreak is the ailment, could culture be the cure? Our critics’ suggestions to help ease your pain – or channel your angst The best method for getting through a breakup is watching Marc Webb’s movie (500) Days of Summer, in which Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets dumped by the original Manic Pixie Dream Girl Zooey Deschanel. For …
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