A mother who had her only child late in life caught her 15-year-old son sexting a girl in his class. The graphically saucy phone traffic was two-way. The boy was a virgin, although he and the girl, who was not, had unsuccessfully attempted intercourse.
For the mum, this was shockingly unfamiliar terrain. She thought she was acting in everybody’s best interests when she and her husband contacted the police, hoping they would explain the dangers of sexting to him.
'The first feature we’re introducing is a keyword moderation tool that anyone can use. Now, when you tap the gear icon on your profile, you’ll find a new Comments tool.
This feature lets you list words you consider offensive or inappropriate. Comments with these words will be hidden from your posts. You can choose your own list of words or use default words we’ve provided. This is in addition to the tools we’ve already developed such as swiping to delete comments, reporting inappropriate comments and blocking accounts.'
KADIZA Sultana, one of the three London schoolgirls who fled to Syria last year, was said to have been disillusioned with life in Isis territory when she was reportedly killed by a Russian airstrike. Kadiza, who was just 16 when she and her friends Shamima Begum and Amira Abase left their Bethnal Green homes, had been radicalised and groomed online into believing that life under Isis would be some kind of religious utopia.
Instead it led to an early death.
France and Germany are to pressure the EU to let them break one of the most central technologies of the internet.
The two countries plan to ask the European Commission to force technology companies to limit the encryption used to keep messages private.
Scotland Yard has created a new unit to police Facebook and Twitter by investigating offensive comments.
A team of volunteers will search out material they deem inappropriate on social networks and report it to the unit. The allegations will then be investigated and the culprits prosecuted, if caught.
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