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Artificial intelligence safety tips for parents

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Learn more about artificial intelligence (AI) content and tools, and discover ways to help your children stay safe. Written by Kate Edwards, Associate Head of Child Safety Online.

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Parents that decide their child under 13 (or the relevant age in their country/region) is ready to explore YouTube can set up a supervised experience on YouTube linked to their own account. This limits the videos a child can find and watch to a parent-selected content setting. Learn more about supervised accounts.
How to set up a supervised experience for your child on YouTube
Create a supervised account

To create a supervised account, you have 4 options:

1. Create and manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link. If you already manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link, skip to Step 2.

2. Set up access for your child using one of the following options:
Option 1: From the YouTube app on a parent's device

Option 2: On the web at families.youtube.com

1. Go to families.youtube.com

2. Sign in to the Google Account you use as a parent manager of your child's account.

3. Select a child from your family group and follow the next steps.

Option 3: From the Family Link app

1. Sign in to your Family Link app .

2. Select your child.

3. Tap Manage Settings.

4. Tap Settings on YouTube and follow the next steps.

Option 4: From the YouTube app on a child's device

1. Sign in to YouTube on your child's device with their Google Account that is linked to yours.

2. Select GET STARTED and follow the next steps. You'll need to enter your own Google Account password to give permission.

3. Make sure your child's YouTube app is up to date. Sign your child in to YouTube on their computer, Android, or iPhone or iPad, and they can begin their supervised experience.

Change your child's supervised account settings

Content settings

You can change the content setting for your child's supervised account at any time.

1. Sign in to YouTube.

2. Go to your profile picture .

3. Select Settings .

4. Select Parent Settings.

5. Select your child's account you'd like to edit.

6. Under YouTube Settings, select EDIT next to "Content Settings".

7. Choose a content setting for your child and choose SELECT to save.

Pause watch history

You can stop new video views from recommending other videos.

Pause search history

You can stop new search terms from recommending other videos.

Clear history

You can clear the watch and search history made with your child's account across all of their linked devices.

Block videos
Blocking YouTube channels on supervised accounts
If you set up a supervised experience for your child's Google Account, you can block channels for them on YouTube. You'll need to use your linked parent account to block channels.

To block a specific channel:

1. Go to the channel page for the YouTube channel you want to block.

2. Go to the "About" tab on the channel page.

3. Click Report user .

4. Select Block channel for kids.This option will only surface if you already manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link.

5. A pop-up may surface alerting you that similar videos may still be available on other channels. Click GOT IT.

6. Select BLOCK next to the child you'd like to block this channel for.

7. BLOCK will change to UNBLOCK, giving you the option to undo the action.

8. Click Done.

Unblock content

If you want to let your child watch a channel you've previously blocked for their supervised account, you can unblock that channel. You can also unblock all previously blocked content for your child. You'll need to use your linked parent account to unblock any content.

To unblock individual channels:

1. Go to the channel page for the YouTube channel you want to unblock.

2. Go to the "About" tab on the channel page.

3. Click Report user .

4. Select Block channel for kids.This option will only surface if you already manage a Google Account for your child with Family Link.

5. A pop-up may surface alerting you that similar videos may still be available on other channels. Click GOT IT.

6. Select UNBLOCK next to the child you'd like to unblock this channel for.

7. UNBLOCK will change to BLOCK, giving you the option to undo the action.

8. Click Done.

To unblock all channels and videos:

1. Make sure you're signed in to YouTube with the Google Account you use as a parent manager of your child's account.

2. Click your profile picture .

3. Click Settings .

4. Click Parent Settings.

5. Select your child.

6. Under GENERAL SETTINGS, click Unblock videos.

7. A pop-up may surface alerting you that all content you've blocked in YouTube and YouTube Kids will be unblocked. Click UNBLOCK.

Learn more about other ways to manage your child's recommendations and search results on YouTube.

If you find something you believe is inappropriate for YouTube, please report it.

Review child's watch history

To review your child's watch history in their supervised account:

1. On your child's device, go to the My Activity page.

2. Select "YouTube History".

3. Select "Manage activity".

4. Scroll to go to all past activity.

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Parents that decide their child under 13 (or the relevant age in their country/region) is ready to explore YouTube can set up a supervised experience on YouTube linked to their own account. This limits the videos a child can find and watch to a parent-selected content setting. Learn more about supervised accounts.

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What are the concerns around Netflix's Squid Game? | Internet Matters

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Squid Game is a Netflix series from South Korea. It's about a group of people brought to a secret location to play children's games for a jackpot worth billions. When someone loses, the guards kill them.

Netflix gives the show a maturity rating of 15. It has graphic violence and injury along with depictions of suicide and sexual themes.

How do children under 15 know what it is?

Young people who use popular social media platforms may come across videos of others imitating Squid Game violence. Gory and explicit clips from the series or cartoon creations of scenes are added to these platforms. Some children may stumble across them accidentally.

Schools have reported children playing games seen in the series on the playground. This shows that the series is spreading through word of mouth too.

What is the Squid Game app?

Since the release of the Netflix series, multiple apps have started popping up in the iTunes and Google Play stores. Some of these apps have an age rating as low as 3, which means children of all ages can access them.

The apps generally all have a similar type of gameplay. Users are inserted into children's games from the series and must compete with the same results for losing players.

What are the concerns?

The main concern is young children's exposure to violence and other themes too old for them to understand. Schools have reported children playing the games depicted in the series. Those who lose the game are punched, pushed or tackled as a form of violent punishment.

Additionally, one of the most popular apps with over a million downloads on the Google Play store is is interrupted by ads and pop-ups. This promotes accidental clicks, which may lead to inappropriate site visits or in-app purchases.

Have open conversations about the series and what they are seeing. Be clear about the risks of seeing inappropriate content. Encourage your child to make safer decisions online.

Make sure that the settings on apps your child uses are suitable for their age.

Update app store settings (Android, iOS) on your child's devices.

If you watch the series, do so when your child is not able to watch with you.

Be actively aware of what your child watches and plays on their devices.

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Squid Game is a Netflix series from South Korea. It's about a group of people brought to a secret location to play children's games for a jackpot worth billions. When someone loses, the guards kill them. Netflix gives the show a maturity rating of 15.

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Set up parental controls on devices and platforms | Internet Matters

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Set up parental controls on a range of devices and platforms to help children develop key online safety and digital literacy skills.

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More than half of the UK's children (51%) say they have been exposed to more misleading online content in the last year than before 2020, a survey has found.

The poll, conducted to coincide with Safer Internet Day, said misleading information such as fake news and altered images - often left youngsters feeling annoyed, upset, sad, angry, attacked or scared.

Nearly half (48%) said they were being exposed to online misinformation every day, while more than one in 10 were seeing it more than six times a day.

The internet has also been a force for good, however, as almost three-quarters (73%) of eight to 17-year-olds who took part said they felt being online had helped them through the pandemic and lockdowns.

But the survey of more than 2,000 young people questioned by the UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC) in December, suggested they were aware of misleading content and happy to play with it themselves.

More than two in five (43%) have noticed their friends and peers sharing misleading content online, while over a third (35%) say they have seen influencers, bloggers, celebrities or people in the public eye sharing it.

And a quarter (25%) admitted sharing it themselves, although they did it "just for fun", according to some.

Nearly two-thirds (63%) said they were likely to fall for such content, such as gaming scams, hidden sponsored ads, filtered or edited images and stories by unofficial sources.

Will Gardner, director of UKSIC, said: "Managing unreliable content and contact is fundamental to being safe online, as well as for looking after others online."

With the internet vital to learning during the coronavirus pandemic, school leaders' union, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has urged parents to "stay alert" to online risks.

NAHT general secretary Paul Whiteman said: "Just because children are spending more time on their devices for schoolwork, doesn't mean screen time should become unlimited or devices should be allowed to be used entirely unsupervised."

Children's Minister Vicky Ford, said: "We want children to have access to the tools they need to navigate modern life, including how to identify disinformation and trusted sources, stay safe online, and make the right decisions when engaging with media content."

UKSIC has worked with young people to create the Young Person's Charter, which it will put to the government with a list of requests about making the internet safer.

Those include industry accountability, establishing better protection online and providing educational resources.

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Fake news: Half of UK kids saw more online misinformation in 2020, survey finds

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Google Internet Legends

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We've created lessons and activities to empower families to make the most of the internet by helping them become confident digital citizens.

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Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families

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Common Sense Media is the leading source of entertainment and technology recommendations for families. Parents trust our expert reviews and objective advice.

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Video games age ratings explained - Internet Matters

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Video games age rating - Internet Matters | Find a list of the main age ratings to make an informed choice on which games are suitable for your child.

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Swiggle.org.uk - Child Friendly Search Engine for Kids

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Swiggle is a friendly search engine for kids aimed at Key Stage 2. With educational search results, Swiggle is fun and simple for children to use when learning to search the internet. There are also tools and information on how to stay safe online.

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It might seem like the news effects everyone equally. On TV or in a newspaper, journalists and editors decide the kinds of stories and reports that appear, meaning that everyone who watches or reads these news sources will be seeing the same thing. But when we see news stories on social media, the experience is completely different.

Radzi Chinyanganya from BBC My World looks at who decides what makes the news, from offline to online sources.

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China's 'midnight patrol' cracks down on young gamers

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Chinese gaming giant Tencent will scan gamers' faces to prevent children playing at night.

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To find what you're after, a search engine will scan its index of webpages for content related to your search.

A search engine makes this index using a program called a 'web crawler'. This automatically browses the web and stores information about the pages it visits.

Every time a web crawler visits a webpage, it makes a copy of it and adds its URL to an index. Once this is done, the web crawler follows all the links on the page, repeating the process of copying, indexing and then following the links. It keeps doing this, building up a huge index of many webpages as it goes.

Some websites stop web crawlers from visiting them. These pages will be left out of the index, along with pages that no-one links to.

The information that the web crawler puts together is then used by search engines. It becomes the search engine's Every webpage recommended by a search engine has been visited by a web crawler.

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