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When the nonprofit Freedom House recently published its annual report, it noted that 2025 marked the 15th straight year of decline for global internet freedom. The biggest decline, after Georgia and ...

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As time goes on, social media is becoming more and more important in every part of our lives. From children to adults, and ...

Children claiming to have circumvented Australia’s world-first social media ban have been put on notice.

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The online shopping season now spans nearly three months of discounts and temporary promotions. It is an attractive period for consumers, but also a major opportunity for cybercriminals, who take ...

Australia has become the first country to legally block under 16s from major social apps, shifting responsibility from ...

Children across Australia woke up on Wednesday with no access to their social media accounts under a world-first ban designed ...

TikTok, Reddit and other platforms will soon require age checks. X-VPN helps adults minimise data exposure, without going ...

Richard Ford, Group CTO at Integrity360, warns that holiday-season scams will look dramatically different, powered by AI tools that can clone websites, mimic the voices of loved ones, and generate ...

Australia may be first to ban under-16s from social media but it’s far from the only government demanding age verification: ...