From category archives: Be Secure Online

Internet Safety

Don't use TikTok if you want to be safe!

Bytedance has been blessed with the success of TikTok, however, success brings critics, political battles with Donald Trump, rebuke from Police Forces worldwide, accusations that stalkers, weirdos are grooming kids on the portal and allegations they don't care about user safety at all.  Aside from that, it's going great.

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What Parents want from Parental Control, We asked, you told us!

Free parental control just isn't good enough, it just isn't clever enough, doesn't do enough, and ultimately doesn't protect your kid's online. According to you, here is what matters for parental control, Time limits, safe search and content control.

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VPNs, V-Bucks, Fortnite, TikTok, Internet safety explained.

Kids bamboozled you with VPNs and V-Bucks? Makes you feel a bit out of your parenting depth keeping the kids safe online. Surveys find somewhere between half and a third of parents give up and let their kids use the internet without any restrictions. Don't give up!

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COVID-19 Tracing App - The Good & Bad and is it Safe?

The new COVID-19 contact tracing app in Ireland has been a major success on many levels. However, questions remain about data privacy.

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Essential Cyber Security Guide for Small Business

IT Cybersecurity incidents have a devastating impact on businesses and small home offices, with an average loss in 2021 costing over $330,000 per incident according to London cyber security insurer Hiscox. However, losing data and reputation can't be measured. Therefore, professional service companies are such a sweet target. 

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COVID19 - KILLING TIME WITH KIDS ONLINE

Changes to everyday life due to the Coronavirus, we need to help our kids, tweens and teenagers adjust to the new and unfamiliar situation of indefinite school and childcare creche closings.

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Internet Safety for Pre Schoolers

Babies, Toddlers & Pre Schoolers on Devices

Nowadays, kids are being introduced to phones in the maternity ward. New parents have to manage their new life parenting, work and technology, including phones, which most times are required by work so the phone can't be avoided. As well as having to look after your newborn, juggle how to manage your babies' exposure to devices and the internet. 

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Installing Freedome VPN on iPhone

Here is how you install Freedome VPN on iPhone.

To watch the BBC iPlayer, follow these steps for installing on an iPhone. Apple has changed things up a little on the iPhone. Follow these steps.

Before VPN this is how it looks.. The BBC

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THE TROUBLE WITH TIKTOK

The problem is quite simple. TikTok’s minimum age is 13, Tiktok does nothing during the sign-up process to check  - meaning huge numbers of children join below the required age with no legal protection. TikTok also serves adverts and recommendations which may not be suitable for children. Families will find it is difficult to contact TikTok to get videos taken down.

Even truthful 13-year-olds are then given an option to make their accounts public.

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ARE PHONES KEEPING BULLYING ALIVE IN SCHOOLS?

This is the opinion of leading American experts at MIT. Schoolyard bullying has been seriously reduced since 1999. Sadly the bullies many of whom are cowards have taken to cyberbullying instead. Online bullying is the only form of bullying growing. This ain't what Steve Jobs brought the world the iPhone to do.

 

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