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		<title>TalkTalk announces launch of Government-backed ‘Active Choice’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, I blogged about our reaction to the Government’s Bailey Review into the commercialisation of children, and specifically that we welcomed the recommendation that parents should be offered an ‘active choice’ about whether to use parental controls. We committed to implementing this for all new customers by October 2012 and today I am really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HomeSafe wins innovation award at the uSwitch Broadband Awards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year we launched our ground breaking, network level security product HomeSafe and since then, over 200,000 of our customers have activated it.  We are all extremely proud of HomeSafe so we were delighted to be awarded the Broadband Innovation award at the uSwitch awards in London last night.
More and more of you are seeing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/01/18/homesafe-wins-innovation-award-at-the-uswitch-broadband-awards/</link>
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		<title>Child internet safety in the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Child internet safety has been in the news again this week following a spam attack of indecent images on a social network.  While this instance was due to malicious hacking, our Life Online research has shown that the risks of exposing children to inappropriate content is very real:
•	17% of six year olds and 39% [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/11/17/child-internet-saftey-in-the-news/</link>
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		<title>We’re committed to being the UK’s safest broadband provider</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a lot of discussion recently about the Government’s work to protect children online. Indeed, we announced a few weeks ago that we fully support the recommendation of the Bailey Review that parents should be helped to block inappropriate content on the internet and be offered an ‘Active Choice’ about whether to use controls.
Along [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/10/28/we%e2%80%99re-committed-to-being-the-uk%e2%80%99s-safest-broadband-provider/</link>
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		<title>Go ON, Get online with our Broadband Expert tutorials</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In support of the ‘Go ON give an hour’ initiative our Chief Executive Dido Harding posted about earlier this week, we will be holding beginner internet sessions at our TalkTalk Customer Experience Centre in London over the coming weeks.
The one hour tutorial sessions will be open to anyone who wants an introduction to the internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/10/28/go-on-get-online-with-our-broadband-expert-tutorials/</link>
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		<title>Thirty per cent of life tasks are now conducted online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thirty per cent of life tasks are now conducted online according to an analysis we’ve just completed.
We asked more than 20,000 people about their online habits and found that in homes with a broadband connection almost one third of everything we do – from communication to entertainment to shopping to life management – is now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/10/27/thirty-per-cent-of-life-tasks-are-now-conducted-online/</link>
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		<title>HomeSafe blocks 1 million web pages at TalkTalk customers&#8217; request</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the Government announced a range of measures to protect children online following the recommendations of the Bailey Review. We specifically welcomed the Bailey recommendation that parents should be offered an ‘active choice’ about whether to use parental controls.
Along with other ISPs, we will be offering all new customers an ‘active choice’ about whether or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/10/11/homesafe-blocks-1-million-web-pages-at-talktalk-customers-request/</link>
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		<title>Making sure super fast is super competitive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We recently reflected on some of the comments made by the Culture Secretary on piracy and parental controls in his speech to the Royal Television Society. Today I wanted to focus specifically on his vision for superfast broadband.

As Mr Hunt recognised, the UK benefits from some of the lowest broadband prices and most innovative services [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/09/26/3272/</link>
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		<title>8.5 million homes victim of a cyber attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet is ultimately a wonderful thing that helps us communicate with friends, access a world of information and even save money. But there are some risks we need to be aware of, just like in the real world.
 

Well over eight million homes in the UK experienced some form of cyber-attack in the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/09/20/8-5-million-homes-victim-of-a-cyber-attack/</link>
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		<title>Our reflections on the Culture Secretary&#8217;s speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, made an important speech this week to the Royal Television Society. He covered a lot of ground but there are two aspects which I wanted to dwell on.

Firstly, we were pleased to hear Mr Hunt outline his thoughts on copyright protection.
He suggested that responsibility for reducing access to sites which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/09/16/our-reflections-on-the-culture-secretarys-speech/</link>
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