Children are meeting online strangers in person - Unicef

More than half of the participants who are under 18 years of age in a United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) study said they met strangers in real life who they initially met online.

Unicef Malaysia Head of Child Protection Sarah Norton-Staal said the "Our Lives Online" study conducted in Malaysia involving 127 children also revealed that two in five children reported having bad experiences online they would not want to tell anyone.

“This poses a lot of risks, among others (the survey reveals) that both boys and girls reported receiving...