Officers warn about the dangers in your kid’s back-to-school photos

online safety as kids get ready to head back to school.Officers are warning that back-to-school photos with placards or boards showing fun facts about your kid can have personal information posted along with them, and those details could risk the safety of your kids.“The personal information often included in these photos can be used by individuals to identify, find, and build a false sense of trust or security with a child,” read a release from the RCMP.“A stranger could approach a youth, list their personal details, and claim they know their parents or are a trustworthy adult, when it is in fact untrue.”Some of the safety tips from the RCMP include not posting personal information like the name of your kid’s school, not having visible addresses in your photo, trying not to post details about your child, and ensuring your online privacy settings are set to maximum security.

Police warn sextortion cases are on the rise among kids Dr. Alec Couros, director of the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Regina, said there are things parents need to be wary of.“There are quite a few things to look for when you’re thinking about internet dangers online.

Certainly, online predators, unsolicited messages in direct messages is quite popular,” said Couros.“It happens to almost every user online, whether it’s a child or whether it’s an adult, and some of those messages can be quite disturbing, it can contain profanity, or there can be elements of online grooming that you have to be very cautious of.”He suggests making an internet contract with your kids, setting parameters of what is allowed to be accessed.“So I think teaching the safe use of social media is probably one of the biggest issues teachers or parents.