Knowing what the 5 big culprits of online life are will help you to protect yourself. I get pretty nervous when I am asked to input my identification number when online. Many companies are asking for very personal details nowadays, even just to receive a newsletter from them.
Understanding the Dangers: Grooming Children Through Gaming Platforms
Online gaming has become one of the most popular activities among children and teenagers. While gaming platforms offer fun and social interaction, they also open up a potential avenue for predators to groom children. Grooming is a form of manipulation where offenders build trust with children to exploit them, often…
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“Let me hug you till you pop!”
“My name’s Huggy Wuggy Body fuzzy and cuddly Don’t you wanna come and hug me? Hug me ’til you die” Mod DB is the world’s oldest video game modification community, with millions of readers per month looking for innovative new gameplay experiences (user-generated content). Their goal is to bring together…
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Roblox for Parents
If your children enjoy playing online games, one name you may have heard about recently is Roblox. Roblox, which was launched in 2006, has exploded in popularity among gamers aged 8 and up, and it is now one of the top online entertainment platforms for kids and teens, according to…
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Bright star loses education opportunity because of TikTok content
Cami Strella realized she couldn’t be a graduate student and a creator of sexually explicit content on an October day when she attended a class with her master’s colleagues at Lenoir-Rhyne University. She sat in the back of her clinical classroom in Hickory, N.C., hoping that the silence and whispers…
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Human Sex Trafficking
Training People and Law Enforcement to Fight this Dark Cybercrime The internet has opened a portal for predators to target easy prey for human trafficking on a global scale. This cybercrime is tantamount to slavery and it is growing every day. The Equality Now Fact sheet indicates that sex trafficking…
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