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Direct messaging and video sharing are to be more restricted by default for teenage users.

The ability to direct message others on the site will be turned off by default for 16 and 17-year olds, TikTok, owned by Beijing firm Bytedance, has revealed.

Direct messaging and video sharing are to be more restricted by default for teenage users.

Direct messaging and video sharing are to be more restricted by default for teenage users.

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‘Super committee’ created to examine draft Online Safety Bill July 29, 2021, 12:08 am The icons of social media apps, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and WhatsApp, are displayed on a mobile phone screen, in London. A new joint “super committee” of Parliament has been created to scrutinise the Government’s proposed Online Safety Bill and is calling for public views on the draft legislation. It will be chaired by Damian Collins, the former chairman of the House of Commons Digit...

Will Cathcart said it was important that 'people understand the privacy they care about is being challenged'

Proposed online safety laws designed to protect people from harm online are not enough to address how risks spread rapidly across platforms, the NSPCC has said. The warning comes after an Ofsted report into sexual abuse in schools highlighted increasing prevalence of online-related incidents, including sexual images being shared via apps such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, and concerns about easy access to pornography. Among the recommendations issued to Government, the schools watchdog said the fin...

Around half of UK adults, 49 or around 26 million, visited an adult website or app in September 2020.

Advertisement Social video sites and apps are now used by almost all UK adult internet users (97 per cent), and by 92 per cent of three to four-year-olds. Young adults are particularly heavy users of social video platforms, with 18-24s spending an average of one hour 16 minutes per day on YouTube in September 2020 – an increase of 11 minutes since 2019. TikTok in particular experienced huge growth during the pandemic, Ofcom found, from 3.5 million UK adult visitors in September 2019 to 14 mil...