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TikTok users aged under-16 will have their accounts automatically set to private, in a new measure to improve child safety. Approved followers only can comme

NSPCC welcomes changes as it says abusers are taking advantage of pandemic to target children online

Millions of accounts on the video-sharing app will only allow approved followers to comment on videos.

The video sharing app has introduced new privacy and safety rules for its younger users.

The changes include making the default privacy setting for accounts with users aged 13 to 15 to private.

The change means tens of millions of teenagers will have their accounts set to private by default.

Changes announced on Wednesday mean TikTok users wont be able to "duet or stitch" with videos posted by children under 16, wont be able to download them,

The number of child sexual abuse images and videos created by children has soared by more than three-quarters in a year, figures show. Analysts from the charity Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) sifted through 299,600 reports of potentially illegal material in 2020, up 15% from the previous year. More than half (153,350) contained images or videos of children being sexually abused, a rise of 16% from the previous year. Of these, 68,000 reports included child abuse content that was “self-generat...

The number of child sexual abuse images and videos created by children has soared by more than three-quarters in a year, figures show. Analysts from the charity Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) sifted through 299,600 reports of potentially illegal material in 2020, up 15% from the previous year. More than half (153,350) contained images or videos of children being sexually abused, a rise of 16% from the previous year. Of these, 68,000 reports included child abuse content that was “self-generat...

Self-generated content can be created using webcams, very often in the child’s own room, the Internet Watch Foundation warned.