Tom’s Tek Tips, Child Cybersecurity Edition: Sharing of Personal Information and Photos

Okay. We're back for our last edition of Tom's tech tips with Sam, the Special Cyber Security Child Safety Edition. We did a mini series of three Our first tip was on password hygiene. Our second was on in game chat, and our last is sharing of personal information and photos. So we all know as adults, then we talk about this all the time. The importance of sharing personal information with bad actors or strangers. With artificial intelligence today, it is very, very challenging to identify who is a bad actor or who is a stranger. Today, it's very easy to replicate someone's voice, someone's actual video of someone. So good good hygiene is don't share anything with anybody unless you're one thousand percent sure who they are. What are some tips from your side of you? Well, for one, you shouldn't share pictures in general unless it's like on messages where you have your friend's number and it's confirmed that it's your friend or your parents and guardians or someone you know know very well on gaming side like, on Roblox, there's chats where you can make group chats on there, and they might ask you to do a photo review on an age review, a name review, but photos are really important. If I share, for example, a photo of me playing softball on my uniform or on any practice uniforme usually has the town name along with, like, the team name, the their last name, and There's usually a background that's sort of can relate to where it is. So if that one that would give you a idea of where they live and might where they might go to school. And it might give them an idea of who are a better idea, and you could look up their last name or find out more about where they go. Absolutely. So, anybody who, you know, when you say messages, you mean text messages of someone you know. Good rule of thumb is if someone reaches out to you and asks for something is to to go through some verification. We talk about this all the time. Unfortunately, we live in a day and age where accounts are constantly compromised and you don't know who it is. And with children, it is a little bit different than adults, but there's some similarities with adults. I always say when someone asks for something, that you're not expecting to get asked for, you should take the time to validate it. With kids, there is really not a good reason. So sharing photos, sharing personal information is not something that you would would wanna do. Right? Correct. And with that, thank you, Sam, for joining us for some tech tips. Welcome. Alright. Thank you. And Hopefully, these were useful.