Note: we have a comprehensive iOS Parental Control Guide here. It’s one of the most complete guides on the web, with updated screenshots. We cover cyber flashing, screen time, blocking unfiltered searches, and more. Apple’s default privacy settings are not private Apple has been touting their […]
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What are Snapchat Filters? A Complete Guide for Parents. Does your kid have Snapchat? Great. Time for a lesson on Snapchat filters. If not, does your kid have friends who have Snapchat? Great. Your kid is impacted by them, too. Still time for a lesson. Snapchat
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Note: we have a comprehensive iOS Parental Control Guide here. It’s one of the most complete guides on the web, with updated screenshots. We cover cyber flashing, screen time, blocking unfiltered searches, and more. What is cyber flashing? Australian online safety experts are warning parents about
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Kids are Hacking the iPhone Screen Time Parental Controls with a Simple Trick We first wrote about this hacking issue in February 2017, when iOS 7 showed a weakness whereby kids could recover the 4-digit Restrictions passcode using a few simple steps. Unfortunately, the Restrictions weakness
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Pedophiles trade Child Porn through Dropbox Links on Instagram (Updated March 2, 2021) The Atlantic first reported that teenagers stumbled upon a network of Instagram accounts that were sharing Dropbox links of child porn (Atlantic article). The way it worked is that pedophiles were using certain
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No Accountability for Big Tech = Big Problem When I take my kids to the movies, we depend on the MPAA rating system to tell my family what to expect. When listening to music, inappropriate content is tagged as having “explicit content.” Video game retailers refuse
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We love these smartphone instructions! We recently came across this list of guidelines from a mom to her son when he received his first iPhone. We’re on the verge of giving our own child her first iPhone, and this is the list we’re going to use.
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Seek to Understand Your Kids There’s a digital divide. On one side of the divide stand parents who view the world through analog glasses. These parents lament days of beepers and answering machines. Their rebukes toward children often include statements that begin with, “When I was
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Is Apex Legends Safe? Apex Legends has taken the gaming world by storm! It was released February 4, 2019 by Respawn Entertainment. In one week, there were over 25 million registered users! We don’t usually write about desktop games, but Apex is so huge, which means
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Summary: No one is holding technology companies accountable for the impacts that their technology is having on the hearts and minds of young people. In the wake of a global outcry over the suicide of a teen girl, the UK’s Parliament has proposed that social media
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