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BBC News
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Australia is planning tough new rules to protect children from online pornography and violence.
The new Labor government wants internet service providers to filter content to ensure households and schools do not receive "inappropriate" material.
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BBC News
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A lack of "big thinking" by politicians has stifled a scheme to distribute laptops to children in the developing world, a spokesman has said.
Walter Bender of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) said politicians were unwilling to commit because "change equals..
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BBC News
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New teaching resources aimed at helping primary school children surf the web safely have been launched.
Figures from regulator Ofcom suggest 500,000 five to seven-year-olds are allowed to go online unsupervised.
Teachers have expressed concern many..
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MSNBC
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A monitoring device that cut TV and computer time in half helped young, overweight children eat less and lose weight, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
And it worked without creating a lot of conflict between parents and their kids, they said.
"It re..
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BBC News
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Safer Internet Day is being marked around Europe with events to educate children and parents about net dangers.
Themed events will reveal the risks of sharing too much personal data and warn children that their virtual friends may not be who they say t..
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BBC News
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The One Laptop Per Child project is turning its attention to children in the United States.
The XO laptop developed by the OLPC was conceived to boost educational efforts in developing nations.
Now the OLPC has set up a US office and has begun talki..
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BusinessWeek
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Recent FDA statements, an impending meeting, and pharmaceutical recalls add up to a chilly forecast for infants and children's cough and cold medicines
As flu season kicks in with the full force of winter, parents looking for cold medicines for sick in..
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BBC News
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More than 75% of parents are concerned about the content of video games played by their children, a survey suggests.
Almost half of the 4,000 parents surveyed in the UK, France, Italy and Germany said that one hour of gaming each day should be the limi..
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BBC News
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The growing number of toy-themed virtual worlds aimed at young people risks undermining the basic human values we wish to instill in children.
So said industry veteran Lord Puttnam opening a London conference devoted to discussing virtual worlds.
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BBC News
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The UK police body which works to stop child sex abuse has launched a new campaign aimed at helping young children to stay safe online.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has designed a new programme for teachers and parents...
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BBC News
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Many children are meeting up with people they first encountered on the internet - and their parents know nothing about it, a study claims.
Web security firm Garlik surveyed hundreds of eight to 15-year-olds and found 20% have met an online friend in pe..
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BBC News
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Computers with wireless internet should not be placed on children's laps, says the head of the government's committee on mobile phone safety research.
Professor Lawrie Challis told the Daily Telegraph children using wi-fi networks should be monitored u..
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MSNBC
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Images of child abuse posted and sold online are rapidly becoming more graphic and more sadistic and involving younger children, a British-based Internet monitoring group said on Tuesday.
In its annual report, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said i..
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MSNBC
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A computer disk containing the names, birth dates and Social Security numbers of 2.9 million Medicaid and children’s health care recipients is missing, Georgia health officials said Tuesday.
The state said the security breach was reported by Affiliat..
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FOX News
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National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
A new National Center for Missing and Exploited Children office just opened in Austin, TX. Founding member of the new Austin office, Diane Allbaugh came on today to talk about NCMEC and the services an..
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BusinessWeek
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The so-called $100 laptop that's being designed for school children in developing nations is known for its bright green and white plastic shell, its power-generating hand crank, and for Nicholas Negroponte, the technology futurist who dreamed it up and wh..
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New York Times
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Let’s face it: we’re in love with the idea of secret location trackers. In “The Da Vinci Code,” the bad guys slap a location-tracking button onto Tom Hanks’s clothing. In “The Matrix,” a location-tracking scorpion robot crawls into Keanu Ree..
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