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Covid connections: Pandemic narrows digital divide as more Brits go online Higher internet use during lockdown has helped to narrow the UKs digital divide (Getty Images) While it may be hard to find silver linings in lockdown, it appears the rapid shift to online services has had its benefits. A surge in demand for internet services over the last year means the UK’s digital divide has narrowed even further, with more and more Brits getting connected. The proportion of homes w...

The shocking new report by Ofcom chronicles the online lives of 18 children ranging from ages 9 to 17 during the third national lockdown in England.

I get up at 2pm... and play FIFA until 2am: Lives of typical UK youngsters in lockdown are revealed in Ofcom report from boy, 16, glued to his Xbox to girl, 10, obsessed with the perfect lighting for her social media snaps New Ofcom report follows online lives of UK youngsters in the Covid lockdown A group of 18 children, aged 9 to 17, shared details of online usage with Ofcom  It revealed how one teenager was using his phone for 15 hours a day on average Another revealed how he was waking up ...

Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 14.39 EDT Priti Patel has stepped up an international campaign to force Facebook to reverse its plans to merge its messaging apps and encrypt all communications between users, arguing such plans make it harder to safeguard children. But despite the intensity of the home secretary’s call for action, there’s little new ground broken in the encryption wars. “We cannot allow a situation where law enforcement’s ability to tackle abhorrent criminal acts and pr...

Over a third of indecent images of children reported to police taken on Snapchat Exclusive Apr 9 2021, 16:59 ET OVER a third of indecent images of children reported to police are taken on Snapchat, according to shocking stats. The social media network is terrible at reporting the abuse on its platforms, with less than one per cent of the abuse reported to cops from the tech giant. 2 More than a third of indecent images of children reported to police are taken on Snapchat, according to shocking ...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. The UK is planning a new attack on end-to-end encryption, with the Home Office set to spearhead efforts designed to discourage Facebook from further rolling out the technology to its messaging apps. WIRED UK This story originally appeared on WIRED UK.  Home Secretary Priti Patel is planning to deliver a keynote speech at a child protection charity’s event focused on exposing the perceived ills of end-to-end encryption a...

Getty Images / WIRED The UK is planning a new attack on end-to-end encryption, with the Home Office set to spearhead efforts designed to discourage Facebook from further rolling out the technology to its messaging apps. Home Secretary Priti Patel is planning to deliver a keynote speech at a child protection charity’s event focused on exposing the perceived ills of end-to-end encryption and asking for stricter regulation of the technology. At the same time a new report will say that technology...

End-to-end encryption would make Facebook a honeypot and a superplatform for paedophiles, according to one official at the National Crime Agency (NCA). Rob Jones, director of threat leadership at NCA, criticised the social network for its plans to introduce the security standard to both Facebook Messenger and Instagram, which Facebook also owns.   End-to-end encryption ensures only the two participants of a chat stream can read messages, and no one in between – not even the company that ow...

In a normal world — the one we knew up to about a year ago — Tom Smith and Andy Burrows would be on tour right now. They would be on the road in support of the first album they made together in almost a decade. And they would no doubt have been thoroughly enjoying themselves — two best mates knocking out co-written tunes in front of happy, receptive audiences. It would have been a fun break from their respective roles as frontman of Editors and ex-Razorlight drummer/songwriter turned in-d...

The North East’s and Cumbria’s police forces have recorded increases in obscene publication offences and sexual grooming offences against…