Are WhatsApp putting profit before safety in lowering their age limit from 16 to 13?

When Meta, the parent company in charge of Facebook, and Instagram, and owners of WhatsApp announced that the minimum age limit for entering the social media platform What’s App would be reduced from 16 to 13 in the European Region, in order to bring it in line with America, it sparked a furor amongst child
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How “safe” is the Online Safety Act 2023

The new Act was given the Royal Assent on 26th October 2023, amidst much political trumpeting that it would make Britain a much safer online environment, particularly for parents and children. When an Act is politically charged, its aims lofty, and the penalties for breach very severe, the laudable aims are sometimes illusory, history confounding
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Is anonymity of the victim right and anonymity of the accused wrong?

The recent story about the high-profile BBC Presenter (when I started writing this blog we did not know his identity) who has allegedly paid thousands of pounds to a former minor when he was 17 for sexually explicit photographs, has filled the media with intrigue. Why? Principally because no one in the BBC or media
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