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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo Global technology editor

One in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, NSPCC finds

A teenage girl looking at her phone
Perpetrators can be strangers, such as sextortion gangs, or someone the child knows such as a friend or schoolmate. Photograph: Hollandse Hoogte/Shutterstock

Nearly one in 10 UK parents say their child has been blackmailed online, with harms ranging from threatening to release intimate pictures to revealing details about someone’s personal life.

The NSPCC child protection charity also found that one in five parents know a child who has experienced online blackmail, while two in five said they rarely or never talked to their children about the subject.

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