The app collects GPS coordinates on users even when they're not using it. By sharing that data, both Facebook and Instagram could collect huge amounts of information on users to better target ads.

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Vast quantities of data on hundreds of thousands of people is being used to construct computer models in an effort to predict child abuse and intervene before it can happen, the Guardian has learned.

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The full scale of online child sexual exploitation is difficult to know.

Sites are often disguised to make them appear legal, or are hidden on the dark web, which enables people to act anonymously and untraceably online.

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Sign the petition to ensure children are safe online.
Tell Home Secretary Sajid Javid and Digital Secretary Jeremy Wright it's time to tame big tech, and protect our children from online abuse.

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In a survey of nearly 40,000 children, we asked children and young people aged 7 to 16 about the risks they face when using the internet.

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Parents’ excessive use of mobile phones has been linked to increasing children’s behaviour problems in the world’s first study of its kind.

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