By Mohamed Attia Cairo Airport Company Chairman Magdy Ishaq recently praised two employees, Essam Ali Mohamed and Amr Sabry Taha, for their quick actions that saved a young child’s life at Terminal 2. The emergency happened near Gate 7 when a child fell and hit his head. The impact caused the child to swallow his…
The aunt of a seven-year-old boy who drowned about a week ago during a training session at a swimming pool in a club in Badrashin area of Giza Governorate, said that the boy, named Rahim, had suffered abuse and was deliberately drowned. The family also directly accused the club’s chairman of gross negligence, while the…
Egypt and TikTok discussed new mechanisms for protecting children online. According to a cabinet statement issued on Friday 10 July, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Raafat Hendy met with TikTok’s Executive Director of Public Policy for the Middle East, Eurasia, and Africa, Emir Gelen, on the sidelines of the World Summit on the Information…
New York — Social media giants have for years touted their growing slate of safety tools and protections as proof that they prioritize young users’ wellbeing. But more than half of those protections don’t work as advertised, new research finds. Researchers at the Cybersafety Research Center tested 86 youth safety features across TikTok, Instagram, Snap and…
TikTok and YouTube have deactivated a total of around 4.7 million accounts belonging to Indonesian children since the country’s youth social media restrictions took effect in late March, the country’s communications and digital affairs minister said. Speaking late last week, Meutya Hafid told the press that TikTok had deactivated 4.1 million accounts since the imposition…
