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What You Share With ChatGPT Could End Up on Google. Here’s What You Need to Understand.
We’re living through a moment where digital instincts haven't caught up with digital reality. A moment where a feature can feel like a...

Kirra Pendergast
3 min read


What To Do If A Child Is Being Bullied Online
When things go wrong online, it is 24/7, it cuts deeper, lasts longer, and follows them home. Whether your child is being bullied, or...

Kirra Pendergast
4 min read


Why Blaming Parents Helps No One
When a child makes a catastrophic mistake online, the first question people ask is always the same. Where were the parents? It’s a...

Kirra Pendergast
5 min read


What Parents Deserve to Know, and What Centres and Schools Must Confront
Last week, like so many others, I sat with the weight of the news. The devastating revelations of abuse in early childhood education...

Kirra Pendergast
5 min read


A Statement about Australia's Age Assurance Technology Trial Preliminary Findings
At CTRL+SHFT, we stand with every parent, educator, and policymaker working to protect young people. We welcome the preliminary findings...

Kirra Pendergast
1 min read


Why “Sexual Extortion” Must Replace “Sextortion”
We need to discuss the language we use when referring to digital harm, abuse and crimes. Because right now, in schools, in courtrooms, in...

Kirra Pendergast
3 min read


A Collision of Convenience and Cluelessness
It’s being hailed across AdTech and media circles as clever. Fresh. “A youth-facing play.” McDonald’s and Snapchat two companies that...

Kirra Pendergast
3 min read


***Trigger warning*** Three Dead Teenagers. One Common Thread. Apple’s iMessage Failed Them.
This is not a story about technology. This is a story about neglect. Over the weekend I read an article in The Wall Street Journal that...

Kirra Pendergast
6 min read


How Photos on a School Facebook Page Have Become AI Training Data
This isn’t an argument against AI in education. It’s a warning about whose AI we’re using and what we’re risking every time we hand it...

Kirra Pendergast
5 min read


The Hidden Fault Line and Why Digital Safety Will Make or Break Your Organisation
Systems full of pressure, distraction, and exhaustion. Systems threaded with constant connectivity—where the line between the digital and...

Kirra Pendergast
3 min read


Why do we even need to look for Roblox alternatives?
The answer is not just because of safety, or chat filters, or the latest horror story. The answer is structural. Psychological. Economic....

Kirra Pendergast
3 min read


The Silent Crisis of 2025 This Is What Bullying Looks Like Now
A disappearing name in a group chat. A message was screen-captured and sent to twenty people before the original sender knew they’d...

Kirra Pendergast
4 min read
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