{"id":252962,"date":"2026-05-22T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:15:09","slug":"how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Parents Can Protect Their Children&#8217;s Online Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy.html\">How Parents Can Protect Their Children&#8217;s Online Privacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy.html\">https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 22:04:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.movieguide.org\">www.movieguide.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published: May 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Photo from Kampus Production via Pexels<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">By India McCarty<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protecting your online privacy is hard enough as an adult, but for children, it can be ever more complicated.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAdults often have a hard enough time understanding what data an app or website collects, why it\u2019s being collected, and where it may end up. For children, those questions are even harder to grasp,\u201d Bark <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a blog post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The website explained that children \u201ccan\u2019t meaningfully consent\u201d when they agree to a website or app\u2019s Terms of Service. Many sites do adhere to COPPA or, The Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act, which \u201crequires those sites and services to notify parents directly and get their approval before they collect, use, or disclose a child\u2019s personal information,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">per<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the FTC\u2019s website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it\u2019s easy for young people to get around these barriers, whether it\u2019s inputting a fake date of birth or using a parent\u2019s device to gain access to a site or app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Related: What Parents Need to Know About Updated Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, many children and teens might not even realize their data is being collected. While today\u2019s young people are trained to withhold their names, birthdays and addresses, they might not think twice about sharing photos and videos, browsing history, contacts or in-app messages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Protecting Children Online: Balancing Safety and Privacy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pH_eA-S_vCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what can parents do to keep their children\u2019s privacy safe online?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAudit app permissions,\u201d Bark recommended, telling parents to check which of their children\u2019s apps have access to their location, camera, contacts and other details.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The site also said to \u201cset privacy settings early\u201d \u2014 \u201cDon\u2019t wait for your child to figure it out on their own. Set social media accounts to private by default, limit who can message or tag them. Don\u2019t be afraid to turn on parental controls across apps and check these settings&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Parents Can Protect Their Children&#8217;s Online Privacy https:\/\/www.movieguide.org\/news-articles\/how-parents-can-protect-their-childrens-online-privacy.html Publish Date: 2026-05-22 22:04:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.movieguide.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/pexels-kampus-7414089.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252964,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252962\/revisions\/252964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}