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Parents, vets press panic button on online content

Kids' privacy and lives under threat online. Also not funny - videos of pets being startled

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A child accessing a smartphone or a computer to watch videos is a sitting target for all kinds of threats - real and perceived.

A series of back-to-back incidents targeting children on social media platforms recently have scared parents into raising the alarm about online content.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on March 03, 2019, with the headline Parents, vets press panic button on online content. Subscribe