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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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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Apple Watch – A Good Smartphone Alternative? Apple’s Family Sharing allows you to set up an Apple Watch for your kid that is entirely managed by your iPhone. This offers a great middle ground for kids who are too young for a smartphone, but old enough
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The porn industry is currently under fire. A major website is shutting down, multi-billion dollar companies are distancing themselves, and the lawsuits keep piling up. So, it’s not hard to convince parents that pornography negatively affects society. But how does pornography harm children and teens? 5
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(Original post from 2018, but updated constantly) A Kansas City hospital has seen a horrifying increase in peer-on-peer sexual abuse among children and they have a theory on what is causing it. “Last year, Children’s Mercy saw 444 kids who were sexually abused within the last
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What is YouTube Kids? App Store description: Google-owned YouTube launched the toddler-oriented app in 2015. It has been described as a “safer” experience than the regular YouTube video-sharing service for finding “Peppa Pig” episodes or watching user-generated videos of people unboxing toys, role-playing their favorite cartoon characters,
For years, we’ve been telling parents about content on Instagram. We even coined a phrase, Instaporn, to characterize the sexualized content that seemed to be invading a once, pure photo app. Our recent testing confirms that although Instagram has clear Community Guidelines, they aren’t enforcing them.
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Is Internet Addiction Real? The May 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was the first to include Internet gaming disorder in its research appendix . This means that it is not an “official” disorder in the DSM, but one on which the American Psychiatric Association requests
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Is violence in video games to blame? On March 8, 2018, President Trump hosted a gathering to discuss the role of violence in video games on the behaviors of young people. Those in attendance included: Entertainment Software Association CEO Mike Gallagher Patricia Vance, president of
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The Protect Young Eyes team is confused. Our speaking team has over six decades working with families in various teaching and ministry roles. None of us has ever met a parent who flat-out didn’t care about the safety of their children. Not one. We’ve met parents
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