29 February 2016
Shopping online can be fun and convenient but are you doing all you can to keep yourself and your family safe on the internet?
Sainsbury's have produced a helpful infographic to help you protect yourself when shopping online.
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29 February 2016
For creators, reshooting a scene for the tiniest bloopers is one of the more annoying (and cost-consuming) aspects of filming. Today, YouTube wants to help fix that by letting you blur any part of the video before it makes it to the public Web.
The concept isn’t entirely new – in 2012, YouTube launched a face blurring tool to help anonymize people in videos. With today’s update, users can blur out any section of the video – be it unwanted license plates, visible phone numbers, wardrobe malfunctions, disturbing imagery, or the like.
19 February 2016
Not everything online is evil, nor does danger lurk behind every new app that comes to market. But keeping up with your teens' and preteens' online activities is much like trying to nail jelly to the barn door -- frustrating, futile and something bound to make you feel inept.
Keep in mind that no app poses a danger in and of itself, but many do provide kids with an opportunity to make, ahem, bad choices.
18 February 2016
'If you think about it, our smartphones know more about us than our closest friends. We store passwords, surf the web, and text everyone from our family to our 💋lovahs💋 on our devices, and for that reason, we password protect the hell out of ’em.
So with that in mind, would you ever just hand your phone, right now, to your ex?'
When it comes to digital citizenship, privacy and respect, should you ever want to look at someone's messages and shares?
Read the article and watch the video here
22 January 2016
The UK’s data protection watchdog has warned that retailers can track every move of their customers using their phones and target them using facial recognition software.
22 January 2016
Vast amounts of personal, behavioural and academic data about children are being collected, processed and used by schools, local authorities, and the government every year.
But a recent review by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK of 50 websites and apps used by children found that only a third had “effective controls in place to limit the collection of personal information from children”.
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