As a cybersecurity expert, I refuse to let my daughter have social media until she is 16.

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If you knew what I know, you probably would too.

We spend billions protecting companies from cyberattacks, fraud, ransomware and hostile digital threats. Businesses have security teams, monitoring systems, threat intelligence and strict safeguards because we understand how dangerous the online world has become.

Yet when it comes to children, we hand them smartphones and unrestricted access to platforms filled with predators, scammers, violent pornography, blackmail gangs and algorithms designed to keep them psychologically dependent from the moment they wake up to the moment they fall asleep.

We are protecting corporations better than we are protecting our own kids.

The government is finally beginning to acknowledge the scale of the crisis. Liz Kendall has said action on social media restrictions for under-16s is........

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