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Meet Chromie & Phish: The New Faces of Online Safety
Another great resource for Child Online Safety
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Recent Updates - Grooming Crimes Double as New Laws Tackle AI-Generated Abuse
I want to cover two important news reports from Sky News1 this week that highlight the rapidly evolving and increasingly serious dangers facing children online. These news stories should serve as a stark reminder that we must remain fully aware, and conversations about digital literacy need to be more considered
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Is That Real? Teaching Children to Spot Deepfakes and AI Manipulation
The internet has always been the Wild West, but with the constant evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI), a new, more sophisticated layer of deception is emerging. It’s no longer just about “fake news”, but it is also now about extremely realistic fake videos, images, and audio, which you will
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The Unseen Toll: Why I've Dedicated Over a Decade to Children's Online Safety
⚠️Trigger Warning - CSAM/Abuse/C-PTSD references that some may and actually should find disturbing ⚠️
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Cyber Safety Guy Review: Salfeld Child Control
Finding Balance in the Digital Age
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Digital Literacy is Non-Negotiable
Preparing Children for the Manipulative Age of AI
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Cyber Safety Guy Roundup October 2025
Welcome to the Cyber Safety Guy Roundup, October 2025! I’m back and ready to tackle the biggest challenges in online child safety. This week, we’re unpacking my new, age-specific cyber safety presentations designed to target everybody from young children to teens and the adults who care for them.
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From TikTok to Crisis
Understanding the Growing Concerns Over Online Platforms and Young Minds
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The Digital Wild West
Why Children Are Unavoidably Exposed to Harmful and Violent Content
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VPNs for Kids: A Dangerous Shortcut to Online Harms
I often discuss with you the importance of keeping children safe online, so you might think that a Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a no-brainer security tool that everyone should use to protect themselves. As with everything, though, there is the light and then there is the dark and it
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Not Just "Teen Drama": The Serious Reality of Online Relationship Abuse
This morning, I read a news article that contained many of the dangers I have previously warned about on this very blog. Still, it never fails to shock me at the levels of misery created by the online world and social media platforms. As parents, teachers or others with a
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How to Talk (and Listen!) About Online Safety: Teen-Approved Tips for Parents
I don’t think a blog post goes by where I am not advising parents to have open & honest communication with their children, so I thought maybe I should write something about how best to do that. Over the years I have been doing this, I have spoken to