February 19, 2024

The dark side of “Sharenting”

Written by: Canopy

“An incident where AI was used to blackmail a teenage boy was shared with DailyMail.com by Yaron Litwin, who works at Canopy – a digital parenting app that detects and blocks pornography on every single website on the internet.”

For the full article on the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12312665/The-dark-sharenting-Parents-upload-photos-young-children-social-media-handing-likeness-pedophiles-sick-digital-pranksters-families-hard-way.html

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