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1 Another boost for security in TalkTalk homes
Around one in five people have fallen victim to online crime, so there has never been a better time to make sure your home computers are safe and secure. TalkTalk’s Super Safe Boost is just £2 per month for Essentials customers or free for Plus TV customers, and we have just increased the number of PCs [...] 		15-Mar-2013
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2 TalkTalk wins second Home Broadband Value gong
TalkTalk’s promise to be the best value provider of broadband, phone and TV in Britain was recognised at the uSwitch.com industry awards last night. We were delighted to win the Best Value Home Broadband gong for the second time in the five years since the awards launched in 2008, proving again that Britain is better off [...] 		17-Jan-2013
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3 National competition keeps kids safe online
Children can learn about staying safe on the internet, win money for their schools and could win a trip to the Houses of Parliament in a competition organised by e-skills UK, an organisation working to promote skills in information technology for people of all ages across Britain. The seventh annual Make IT Happy competition, for children [...] 		16-Jan-2013
14:03
4 TalkTalk keeps children safe on the streets
Following this summer’s successful sponsorship of a school crossing in Bedford, we are delighted to announce that we will be sponsoring lollipop ladies at a number of schools in Wandsworth. Lollipop ladies are an integral part of our communities and an essential service that ensures child safety. As a broadband provider, we feel we have a [...] 		06-Dec-2012
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5 TalkTalk supports IWF Awareness Day
As regular readers of the blog will know, we are incredibly passionate about helping our customers stay safer online and particularly helping them to protect their children online. Last year we launched HomeSafe, our unique network level security service, which lets our customers control the type of websites they want their home to access, and [...] 		24-Oct-2012
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6 Get Safe Online Week: are we really protecting ourselves online?
Some research by TNS conducted earlier this year found that Britons are some of the most confident internet users in Europe; 63% of adults use the internet several times a day, we’re more likely to access the internet on our smartphones, and 74% of us buy goods and services online compared to the EU average [...] 		22-Oct-2012
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7 Internet safety: a parents view
You know you have reached another milestone when your 13-year-old teenage son asks to go to a party which starts at 8pm and ends at 1am and isn’t organised by another parent.  It’s one of those moments when a parental decision has to be made – let them go and worry all night or say [...] 		08-Aug-2012
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8 Another award for HomeSafe™
We’re really proud that HomeSafe™, our unique network level security service, has scooped another industry award. On Tuesday, the Internet Service Providers Association (ISPA) announced HomeSafe™ as the winner Internet Safety and Security category of the ISPA Awards 2012. The judging panel, which included technology journalists and senior industry representatives, were particularly impressed that we offer all [...] 		05-Jul-2012
10:07
9 TalkTalk welcomes Government discussion into parental controls
We welcome the launch of the Government’s discussion paper on parental internet controls and look forward to contributing towards the debate. We firmly believe that internet safety is the road safety of our children’s generation. Road safety required us all to play a part; teaching the Green Cross Code, using seat belts, fitting car seats and [...] 		28-Jun-2012
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10 Happy birthday HomeSafe
It is officially one year today since we launched HomeSafe, our groundbreaking network-level security service, and what a year its been. Today over 350,000 of our customers are using HomeSafe and this continues to grow daily. In March we also became the first – and so far only – ISP to ask our new customers to [...] 		09-May-2012
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11 Protecting children online with parental controls
We welcome the continued focus from Government, and specifically the Prime Minister, on the hugely important issue of protecting children online. TalkTalk remains the only ISP to ask new customers to make an upfront decision about using parental controls. Since we began doing this in March, one in three new customers has chosen to activate them; [...] 		04-May-2012
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12 One in three new customers using HomeSafe
Today the Independent Parliamentary Inquiry into Online Child Protection, chaired by Claire Perry MP, has published its final report which included a number of recommendations for Government and ISPs about how child internet safety could be improved. It is good to see the continued Parliamentary and Government focus in this area. I’ve always believed that as [...] 		18-Apr-2012
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13 Meet one of our HomeSafe mums
As any regular readers of our blog will know, internet safety is something that we take very seriously here at TalkTalk. We recently hosted an event at our Customer Experience Centre in London in celebration of Safer Internet Day and much of the discussion focused on how you strike the balance between protecting your children [...] 		30-Mar-2012
12:38
14 TalkTalk supports Beatbullying’s Big March 2012
If you visit talktalk.co.uk on Thursday you might be surprised to see hundreds of thousands of virtual marchers crossing our website. That’s because 1st March is the Big March 2012, the world’s first virtual, global march against bullying. Nearly 1 million people have signed a petition calling for children to have the right be free [...] 		27-Feb-2012
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15 New survey reveals parents’ worries over child safety
17-Feb-2012
18:02
16 TalkTalk announces launch of Government-backed ‘Active Choice’
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 [...] 		07-Feb-2012
10:23
17 HomeSafe wins innovation award at the uSwitch Broadband Awards
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 [...] 		18-Jan-2012
09:46
18 5 holiday online safety tips from TalkTalk and F-Secure
With the Christmas season nearly upon us, there’s a good chance that you’ll be going away for at least a couple of days. And whether its visiting friends and family nearby, or heading off on holiday to another country, you’ll probably still be connected to the internet in some way. To help make sure that the [...] 		09-Dec-2011
10:41
19 Silver surfers catching up with younger generations
Despite not having grown up with computers or internet access, new research conducted by TalkTalk and F-Secure has found that the older generations are catching up when it comes to their internet use. Nine out of ten UK residents over the age of 60 who use the internet go online every day, with 68 per cent [...] 		24-Nov-2011
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20 Child internet safety in the news
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% [...] 		17-Nov-2011
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