Internet
Do not give smartphones to children under 11, EE advises
The new guidance comes as campaigners and MPs have urged tougher action to be taken on children’s mobile phone usage.
More than 300,000 rural homes and businesses to get broadband boost
Up to £800 million in Government funding as part of Project Gigabit will bring lightning-fast broadband to more rural areas.
Internet addiction could cause negative changes in teenagers’ brains – study
Academics said the problem can affect teenagers’ ability to maintain relationships.
Internet use linked to higher wellbeing, study suggests
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, part of the University of Oxford, analysed data from two million people
Is your child using social media? The safety conversations every parent needs to be thinking about
Social media users are getting younger and younger – so how can we help protect them?
Internet helped create pressure to end tampon tax, says lead campaigner
Laura Coryton was recognised for her services to charitable campaigning by being made an MBE at Windsor Castle.
Do more to protect children’s privacy online, social media sites told
The Information Commissioner has called on online platforms to improve their data protection practices to better protect younger internet users.
NHS and Government websites should be made free of data charges, ministers told
Labour MP Simon Lightwood called for a law change requiring all providers to mark public authority sites as ‘zero rated’, guaranteeing free access.
4G mast means gran on remote island can Christmas shop online for first time
Alice Arthur, 63, said mobile internet access means she does not have to make a six-hour round trip to buy presents.
No ‘smoking gun’ linking mental health harm and the internet – study
Researchers say that if the link between internet use and poor health were as universal and robust as many think, they would have found it.