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From bots and the history of computer games to valuable tips on online gaming: In the fourth issue of the children's media magazine SCROLLER, everything revolves around the digital gaming world.

Record number of participants in the klicksafe prize / Prize sponsor: Pinar Atalay ("Tagesthemen")

Online content is becoming more drastic and spreading faster and faster. Prevention and rapid intervention are necessary to enable young people to use the Internet without worry. With its work, jugendschutz.net makes an important contribution. In its annual report, jugendschutz.net presents the results of last year's research and controls.

The decision of the Bad Hersfeld family court has been the subject of heated debate in recent days. What problems arise when using WhatsApp? What do parents have to consider when their children use WhatsApp?

Test by Stiftung Warentest and jugendschutz.net shows considerable risks for children

Information material on data privacy and data security. Free download at www.klicksafe.de/klicksafetogo

According to the new LfM study, more than half of the people surveyed have already had experience with fake news.

Our updated checklist can give parents some rough guidance in making a decision.

As part of the program accompanying the National Digital Summit, which will take place on June 12 and 13, 2017 in Ludwigshafen and the Rhine-Neckar region, Dr. Stefanie Hubig, Minister of Education of Rhineland-Palatinate, visited the State Agency for Media and Communication (LMK) in Ludwigshafen on June 12. In the digital young talent workshop, children and young people presented innovative digital education projects. Minister Hubig provided information about current developments in the state's strategy for promoting media literacy and presented the expansion of the successful state program "Medienkompetenz macht Schule" (Media Literacy in Schools) to the elementary school level.

Sexting, the sending of one's own nude pictures, is nothing unusual for many young people. According to JIM 2015, a quarter of young people have heard someone send them erotic or provocative photos or films of themselves by cell phone or over the Internet. To inform teenagers about sexting and the possible risks that can arise from it, www.handysektor.de publishes a topic special including an explanatory video.

The upcoming klicksafe webinar will take place on Thursday, 22.06.2017, in the time between 15.00 and 16.00.

The Tagesschau is currently running a social media campaign under the motto "Say it to my face" against hate comments and for a better culture of discussion on the web.

Lower Saxony's Minister of Education Heiligenstadt presents new teaching materials on fake news

New study on educational partnerships and online tool published

Whether photos, videos or documents. Users store a lot of private data on their own computers. But what happens if you suddenly lose this data? How much would you be willing to pay to get your personal data back? Ransomware, such as the currently circulating "WannaCry", infects computers in order to demand money for the release of the data.