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		<title>Happy birthday HomeSafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/05/09/happy-birthday-homesafe/</link>
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		<title>Protecting children online with parental controls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/05/04/protecting-children-online-with-parental-controls/</link>
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		<title>One in three new customers using HomeSafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/04/18/were-leading-the-way-as-one-in-three-of-our-new-customers-are-using-homesafe-to-make-the-internet-safer-for-their-children/</link>
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		<title>Meet one of our HomeSafe mums</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/03/30/meet-one-of-our-homesafe-mums/</link>
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		<title>TalkTalk supports Beatbullying’s Big March 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/02/27/talktalk-supports-beatbullying%e2%80%99s-big-march-2012/</link>
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		<title>New survey reveals parents’ worries over child safety</title>
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		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/02/17/3544/</link>
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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>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2012/02/07/talktalk-announces-launch-of-government-backed-%e2%80%98active-choice%e2%80%99-2/</link>
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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>5 holiday online safety tips from TalkTalk and F-Secure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/12/09/5-holiday-online-safety-tips-from-talktalk-and-f-secure/</link>
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		<title>Silver surfers catching up with younger generations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.talktalkblog.co.uk/2011/11/24/silver-surfers-catching-up-with-younger-generations/</link>
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