It wasn’t my finest hour. ‘I’d like you to stop sharing pictures of our daughter online,’ my partner said. ‘Don’t tell me what to do,’ I replied. Followed by ‘she’s my daughter too.’
But, the jig is up, for sharents like me. It’s time to reconsider, say lawmakers, startling studies and of course, the increasingly nefarious capabilities of dark AI and deepfakes, plus the higher dangers of identity theft and digital kidnapping.passed last year was stern, urging parents to take responsibility for the kids’ privacy, and awarding judges the right to ban influencers from posting their child’s image altogether.
I’d seen the headlines, of course, but I was remaining deliberately ignorant because: I wanted to continue. Once I started learning about it, the option to continue shrank and shrank until it closed to me. I knew it would.