'Sharenting' may seem like harmless family fun, but experts are concerned about its impact on kids' privacy

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The Current23:22‘Kids aren’t content’: Concerns over ‘sharenting’ and children’s privacy online

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When Sarah Adams started her TikTok account Mom.Uncharted in 2021, her goal wasn’t to share countless photos and videos of her newborn child. Rather, it was to confront that practice.

“For the amount of time parents are online and sharing their children, I just didn’t see enough conversations happening in regard to the other side of this: the negatives, the potential ramifications, the consequences, issues of privacy and informed consent,” she said.

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“Sharenting” is a relatively new term to describe parents over-sharing their children’s intimate lives online, but it is not a

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