How Parents Can Protect Children: Online Privacy Risks

Internet and social media have become part of people’s daily routines, while online privacy risks have had detrimental effects on users. Since the beginning of the Covid-۱۹ pandemic number of children who are vulnerable users of social media has been increasing considerably. As a result, parents have attempted to protect their children by confronting online privacy risks such as Online sexual exploitation, Cyberbullying, Online risk-taking behavior, and Inappropriate collection, use, and sharing of data. This review-descriptive paper studies recent articles that particularly concentrated on online privacy risks and children’s health. Findings show that people cannot resolve some online privacy threats, although there are some practical solutions by which children can be protected. For example, teaching media literacy rules, Shinging unfavorable experiences, monitoring children’s social media use, broadening insight about possible problems, and raising their information to determine and consider privacy and security settings. Following the practical solutions such as those mentioned in this paper, would be beneficial to boost children’s well-being.

کلیدواژه ها:

Online privacy ، online privacy risks ، children’s well-being ، social media ، online privacy threads.