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VTech hack exposes ID theft risk in connecting kids to Internet

December 6, 2015 publisher against-privacy, child, from-expressing, jeremy-wagstaff, kong-based, militant-groups, motive, nsa, over-the-next, seen-on-display, under-renewed, wagstaff, wednesdays

By Jim Finkle and Jeremy Wagstaff BOSTON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Parents who gave their child a Kidizoom smartwatch or a VTech InnoTab tablet may have exposed them to identity theft after Hong Kong-based VTech said hackers stole the personal information of more than 6 million children. Shipments of toys that connect to the Internet will rise 200 percent over the next five years, according to estimates by UK-based Juniper Research. It's not clear what the motive was for the VTech breach nor whether it has resulted in any identity theft so far

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Facebook makes paid time off for baby leave a global benefit

November 28, 2015 admin child, executive-mark, extending-its, facebook, facebook-chief, human-resources, matloff-goler, parental-leave, paternity-leave, social, united, university

Less than a week after Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said he would take two months of paternity leave, the social media company announced it is extending its parental leave policy to full-time employees outside the United States. Employees may take leave at any point up to a year after the birth of their child, Lori Matloff Goler, the company's head of human resources, said in a Facebook post late Wednesday. Facebook currently offers only U.S.-based workers up to four months of paid leave

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Insight – In Britain, teachers learn how to tackle extremists

September 9, 2015 publisher 290-million, child, expects-full, good-position, interior-view, its-full-year, michael, mortgage-debt, recruit-young, second-time, waverley-school, your-child

By Michael Holden and Sara Ledwith BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – Birmingham school principal Kamal Hanif recently gave a group of parents a presentation about how extremists use social media to recruit young people. For extremists, he told them, that ignorance is a weapon. “If you're not speaking to your child and being very open with them, they've got no-one to go to.” Hanif is in a good position to know.

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Indian jeweller pulls ‘racist’, ‘slave-child’ ad with Bollywood actress

April 23, 2015 creative 67th, aids, aishwarya, carpet-as-she, child, festival, india, indian, joint-united, said-the-image, screening, thomson-reuters

By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A major Indian jewellery chain has withdrawn an advert featuring Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan with a dark-skinned boy holding a parasol over her after it was slammed by activists and on social media for being racist and promoting child slavery. Kalyan Jewellers, which employs about 4,000 people across India, said the advertisement featured in a national newspaper on April 17 was intended to present “royalty, timeless beauty and elegance”

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Online store merger prods luxury goods makers toward Internet

April 23, 2015 admin 67th, aishwarya, child, milan, online-fashion, pascale, stroll-past, the-appearance, the-world, thomson-reuters, world

By Astrid Wendlandt and Pascale Denis PARIS (Reuters) – The merger of the world's two biggest online fashion stores, Net-a-Porter (NAP) and Yoox, sends a warning to luxury brands to embrace the Internet with more vim after years of resistance. “It looks like they are scared to try things out.” Sharma said many brands' websites mimicked the appearance of Net-a-Porter's black-and-white portal.