Child safety online

PAKISTANI children are spending more of their lives online, but the safeguards around them are not keeping pace. A recent Kaspersky survey covering the Middle East, Turkiye, and Africa region, including Pakistan, found YouTube to be the most popular mobile app among children surveyed here, followed by Instagram and WhatsApp. The more important issue, however, is what children may face once they are online. Multiplayer games and communication platforms can put young users in direct contact with strangers. This can expose them to grooming, fraud, blackmail, and other forms of abuse. Generative…