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Get Safe Online urges smartphone users to get security savvy

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According to Get Safe Online’s research, 67% of people accessing the web from their mobiles do not use the password or PIN function to secure their handsets. Combined with all the other information they store, such as home telephone numbers, family names and personal emails, smartphone users can be particularly vulnerable to fraud if the device falls into the wrong hands.

Professor Tanya Byron: UK a world leader on internet safety – but progress needs to speed up

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Professor Tanya Byron has confirmed the UK as a world leader in child internet safety but advised that Government and Industry need to make faster progress in delivery if the UK is to stay ahead of advances in technology.

BBC News School Report

Teachers across the UK have been using resources available on the BBC News School Report website to help their 11-14 year old students develop journalistic skills and beco

Four in Five Regard Internet Access as a Fundamental Right: Global Poll

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The BBC report that “Four in five adults (79%) regard internet access as their fundamental right according to a new global poll conducted across 26 countries for BBC World Service.

FCC Survey Finds Cost and Digital Literacy Main Barriers to Broadband Adoption

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The Federal Communications Commission has released its National Broadband Plan Consumer Survey, Broadband Adoption and Use in America, which found that affordability and lack

UKCCIS child internet safety strategy launched

The UK’s first child internet safety strategy, ‘Click Clever Click Safe’, was launched in December at the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS) Summit.

 

By John Eccleston On December 22nd, 2009