Over this past year myself and many of my cyber safety colleagues, have noticed a marked increase in the numbers of primary school children, some as young as seven years old who claim they are using Snapchat. A teacher at one school I visited told me she believed that one of her Kindergarten children was… Continue Reading
Trigger Warning: Creepy Clown Image Below: The “YouTube Kids” App was launched two years ago in 2015. I reviewed the app just after it’s launch here in Australia. Google developed the app specifically to be a safer video viewer app for children to use. Note: They do have a disclaimer within their “Parental Guide Page” within… Continue Reading
There’s been a few media stories last week about Twitter exposing young people to pornography. Twitter is an adult social media platform, and all adult social media platforms have adult content and pornography. So… nothing new here. YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, even Musical.ly all have various amounts and levels of pornography and adult content. Twitter’s pornography is… Continue Reading
Evan Lorne / Shutterstock.com I received an email from a very worried mum last night, her daughter has fallen victim to a Facebook scam. Her daughter got a message from someone she is friends with on Facebook to say that the daughter had won some money in a lottery, and had to send her personal details… Continue Reading
Kids love YouTube, but unfortunately it is now listed as 17+ on the iTunes store. Why? Because it’s an adult video platform, and YouTube have given kids their own app now, YouTube Kids. Not yet available in Australia. More on that Here To make YouTube a little safer for younger users, you should set… Continue Reading
Have you got “Memories” active on Facebook? This is where you get a notification and re-post of something that you posted previously on Facebook called “On This Day”. “Your memories are yours, so you should control which ones you see in On This Day. Memories include things like your posts and others’ posts you’re tagged in,… Continue Reading
There are reports from some parents that the latest operating system from Microsoft, Windows 10, is now automatically sending parents a detailed report of their children’s computer activity when parents add their child to a Microsoft Family account. Parents may have previously set up Windows 8 on their child’s computer and added that child’s Microsoft account to a… Continue Reading
Disclaimer: I’ve been on Pinterest since day 1, but for some reason my entire feed is full of Cats!!! How did this happen?….ummmm. However, I also have a board for Caravans, for Mad Men (the T.V show) 1950’s fashion and Geek Chic collectibles. But weirdly enough the cats reign! (see pic above) Not surprising for this ole… Continue Reading
A parent at last nights parent talk on Cyber Safety approached me afterwards to tell me that her daughter insisted that Snapchat photos and videos disappeared once seen through Snapchat. At all my student talks and parent talks, I point out that Snapchat is a fun app, it’s also hugely popular with 100 millions monthly… Continue Reading
Here is the latest “Advanced Facebook Privacy Settings” 2015. Step By Step Video. If you want to protect your privacy from non-friends which might include scammers, acquaintances, work mates or snoopers! This is the easy way for you to set up all those complicated settings. I also explain how to set some other settings which… Continue Reading