1. Does the Online Safety Bill rely on something unworkable?

Vicki and Geraldine discuss Parent Zone’s paper, Tools: A False Hope?, looking at user empowerment tools, which are often seen as a 'silver bullet' in discussions about keeping both children and adults safe online. But will they actually work?

• How long would it take to set up all the tools on all your favourite platforms and services? (Spoiler alert: quite a long while.)
• How effective are tools anyway?
• Who knows what happens to all the data that has to be collected for the tools to work?

Tech Shock is a Parent Zone production. Follow Parent Zone on social media for all the latest on our work on helping families to thrive in the digital age. Presented by Vicki Shotbolt. Tech Shock is produced and edited by Tim Malster.
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