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Discord Explained, What is Discord?

We give Discord, the chat messaging service popular with gamers, the BeSecureOnline once over. Launched in 2015, by two video gamers, Discord enjoys 140 million active monthly users. Drawn by the emphasis on chat, messages and community building, users benefit from no advertising, no forced feed or algorithms.

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Five things Kids must never share online ever!

Clever entrapment of a 9-year-old girl who tricked into giving an interloper her dog's name 'Snowy' on Instagram, which she thought was harmless. It wasn't.

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Guide for your Under 4 year old on Devices, Internet.

Practical, real tips about parental control updated to the COVID19 update. Tips, Tricks and advise for parents. Introducing parental control for parents which is the setting up of phone to protect kids and others includes some never seen before tips

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75% of us, don't care about our personal internet safety

Former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe really annoyed

Prime Minister, Theresa May, when she was Home Secretary. She agreed with his stance on cybercrime, but not the way he went about it. He suggested Police would be slow to investigate online security crimes where the individuals failed to take online protection seriously especially having an 'upto date' antivirus. He openly backed banks, credit card providers doing the same, not refunding customers losses. She disliked the way he went about it, she's not so so keen on the other guy in the photo below either. 

 

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Internet Parenting, What can I do? What's my responsibility?

The internet has a huge influence in our day to day lives – impacting us both negatively and positively.

Although it’s hard to control internet usage, there are steps you can take to manage the amount of control it has over your household. Our internet safety talks for kids and parents being one of them.

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UK Sexting skyrockets amongst under 16's on Smartphones over last 2 years

UK Labour party want to make PHSE course's mandatory for all over the age of 11. The current courses have not been updated since 2000 some 7 years before the launch of the iPhone.  Labour’s shadow Education Eecretary Lucy Powell promises to act as soon Labour is returned to Government and is urging the current Government to act long beforehand. OFSTED regards most of the current teaching and guidance as 'not good' and some of it woefully outdated. BeSecureOnline.co.uk explains.

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Cyberbullying facts and advice for parents, children and young people

Cyberbullying involves the use of technologies such as the internet, social networking sites, websites, email, text and instant messaging and gaming platforms to repeatedly intimidate or harass others. 

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