Facebook messaging encryption will ‘put more children at risk’
- Politicians have warned Facebook that introducing end-to-end encryption could lead to increased risk to children online
- One of the company’s leading figures was giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee at Westminster yesterday
- She said the plans to switch on encryption will make it harder to detect cases of abuse
- Earlier this week the NSPCC had called on Facebook to resume scanning for indications of child abuse in the EU
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Malware found on computers given to pupils by government
- Some laptops given out by the government for pupils learning at home have been found to contain malicious software (malware)
- Details were shared by teachers in an online forum about suspicious files sent to a Bradford school
- The Department of Education said it was ‘urgently investigating’
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Investigation begins after alleged abuses at Cumbria school
- Claims of historical sexual abuse at a school in Whitehaven are to be investigated by police
- Cumbria Education Trust said it had received a letter which made “serious but unspecific allegations”
- The Trust’s head says “Nothing is more important to us than the safeguarding of children and young people”
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320 of the UK’s most dangerous child sex offenders arrested since first lockdown
- Over 300 of the country’s most serious child sex offenders have been arrested since the first lockdown, according to the National Crime Agency (NCA)
- Investigators have been focused on those operating online
- The operation led to 6,500 children being safeguarded last year
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