sharenting

Do you love posting photos on social media? If you have kids, you may be including pictures of them too. However, you should be aware that posting your kid’s image online isn’t without its risks.

Trevor Cooke, the online privacy expert at EarthWeb , discusses the need to safeguard your child’s privacy online, and explains how to do it.

• New research reveals that over half (54%) of parents and grandparents choose not to post images of their children online
• One in ten parents are happy to share their child’s school online (10%)
• 44% of UK parents named social media as the most important issue in modern society, ahead of climate change
• Safeguarding experts explain what you need to consider
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The average parent shares almost 1,500 images of their child before their fifth birthday, and more than 80% of children will have an online presence by age two. A 2018 study by Barclays Bank forecasted that sharenting will account for two-thirds of identity fraud affecting young people by the decade’s end, producing 7.4...