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Do the Police have the Powers to Search your Phone

Every day the police ask people to hand over their electronic devices including phones and individuals. Many people are left with the impression that they are under an obligation to do so. 

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Social Media; Time to use Real Names, Real Photos.

In our talk, we recommend using Real Names, Real Photos and people question this which is understandable. This is a social media preferred by many Police forces around the world.

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Five things Kids must never share online ever!

Clever entrapment of a 9-year-old girl who tricked into giving an interloper her dog's name 'Snowy' on Instagram, which she thought was harmless. It wasn't.

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TikTok mimics Instagram going for the happy vibe

TikTok is one of the most popular apps ever, so successful that kids are flocking to it. TikTok is pressing YouTube hard for kid's famously short attention spans. Now TikTok has taken more steps to make viewers behave better, which is great.

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Kids go around age verification

Kids can easily bypass the age verification on Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and WhatsApp lying about their age, according to a new research study. New 2021 study reveals that social media do not stop kids from lying about their age.

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TikTok made safer, but not safe!

TikTok is the internet sensation that became kids and teens favourite in 2020 through 2021. TikTok is easy to set up and ease, it is well designed and has blown Instagram away but not Snapchat. If you haven't tried it yourself, try it and you will see what I mean.

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TikTok deliberately thwarts 'LGBT, Overweight & Disabled' people.

TikTok is the flavour of the month. Formerly known as Musicaly.ly until Chinese Company Bytedance bought it in 2018. Merged with the Bytedance product Douhin, and was relaunched as TikTok. TikTok rules the waves now, putting everyone else in the shade including Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube with Instagram suffering the most.

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Trump, Miss Teen USA, Zuckerberg & WebCam covers

Cassidy Wolf, a former Miss Teen USA, owned by Donald Trump, was hacked via her webcam by a young man who had hacked over 150 women forcing many to do lewd things. Ms USA was the only woman to press charges. A $5 webcam cover would have prevented his perving.

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Don't use TikTok if you want to be safe!

Bytedance has been blessed with the success of TikTok, however, success brings critics, political battles with Donald Trump, rebuke from Police Forces worldwide, accusations that stalkers, weirdos are grooming kids on the portal and allegations they don't care about user safety at all.  Aside from that, it's going great.

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Smart Teenager talks about reality of social media, We respond.

A Bristol teenager writes. "I feel that screen limits should depend on the kid. My brother is driven to do anything restricted from him. Screen time is annoying especially now during corona because I only get 20 minutes of Snapchat and less than 3 on other social media apps"

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