Parents have been stressing out for at least two decades about what to share about their children online. Powerful new technologies present a more urgent risk.
Parents on TikTok are divided between those who post videos of their children for entertainment and those who want to protect their privacy. One TikTok star, Kodye Elyse, stopped including her kids in her content after a video attracted creepy comments from strangers. She now encourages parents not to post about their children publicly. However, even after deleting her children s images from the internet, Elyse discovered her son s photo on a sports news site through a facial recognition search engine. This raises concerns about the invasion of children s privacy and the misuse of their images online.
There are two distinct factions of parents on TikTok: those who will crack eggs over their kids’ heads for laughs and those who are trying desperately to make sure the internet doesn’t know who their children are. For the TikTok star who posts under the name Kodye Elyse, an uncomfortable online experience made her stop including her three children on her social media. A video she posted in 2020 of her young daughter dancing attracted millions of views and creepy comments from strange men. (She r
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