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My experience as a parent during lockdown and how online gaming helped our children
4 June 2021
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Commonplace online retail scams and how you can avoid becoming a victim
Fast forward a few years to the conversations that parents and grandparents will be having with kids. “When we wanted to buy something, we used to go to shops, which were buildings in the town centre that are now mainly apartments. Or we’d...
27 April 2021
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How fraudsters trick you out of your money
Just before I sat down to write this blog post I received an unexpected call from someone who said they were from the fraud department at Visa. They told me there’d been an attempt to spend money on my card that morning and if I didn’t take...
5 February 2021
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Get Safe Online Caribbean Cyber Heroes announced
The overall winner and ‘highly commended’ nominees have been announced in Get Safe Online’s ‘Cyber Heroes’ awards, run for the last three weeks in 12 Caribbean countries. Toward the end of November, we launched the awards by asking...
16 December 2020
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Must-avoid COVID-19 scams
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, people and businesses around the world have relied on the internet in an unprecedented way. Family get-togethers and business meetings alike have given way to virtual calls. We rely more heavily on...
21 October 2020
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Digital safety and safeguarding children and young people from harmful influences online
The impact of COVID-19 means that most of us will be at home for an extended period and are likely to be spending increasing amounts of time online. The online world is also a necessity for many children in accessing schoolwork and it delivers huge...
10 August 2020
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