Many Bay Area police departments this week are warning the public to be aware that school is re-starting and to be careful driving during times children are going to and from school.
Danville police added a message for parents: Be careful of what information you share in social media posts about your children.
Danville police posted on Facebook on Wednesday: “We know some of you parents are EXTRA excited about school starting this week, but we want to share a word of caution about those back-to-school social media photos.”
“As most schools resume tomorrow, we would like to remind parents not to reveal personal information about your children in photos.”
Police use the example of a school resource officer posing as a child holding up a sign with the child’s address, among other information, as what not to do.
“Please be cautious about sharing personal information such as addresses, phone numbers, school locations, your child’s name and other personal information that can be used by predators and criminals for identity theft and scams,” police wrote.
Years ago I was the New Years baby in the Concord Transcript. They posted my picture my name and my address. How things have changed
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Today’s parents are mentally superficial and not wary about the dark sides of society.
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Before promoting artifical intelligence, perhaps society should work on eliminating “naturally stupid”.
Sounds like we are living in some bad times. I have a lot of relatives that have done exactly what they are telling you not to do. From first day at school to scoring a goal, or hitting a grand slam. I think you can’t let the Bas***ds get you down. You have to keep on living.
This is CA where predators are on our streets instead of incarcerated.
Parents put signs in their front yard advertising grade and school.
Stick figures on vehicle window showing how many kids.
Bumper stickers showing schools their kids go to.
Parents allowing unsupervised use of cellphone and social media by children.
Time to review social media and texting is not by Police after a child goes missing.
Coworker’s kids have social media but a parent has to access is before they can use it and even if they delete parents can review all their activity.
There’s already too much information about people on the internet. There are websites where all you need to do is type in a person’s name, and their address, phone number, and date of birth will pop up. These websites will even list previous addresses and phone numbers, along with a list of relatives, and it’s all for free. Some of them will even list their occupation and where they work. They only charge you if you want to do a complete background check.
Yes DAWG and that should be against the law!!!
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About a year ago, or so ago, I brought up that concern to someone in law enforcement or the medical field (I forget which), and was told that it’s totally legal for our personal information to be posted on those websites. Many places, like medical offices, request personal information to sell it but make patients believe that it only gets shared with the provider network and is only used for treatment purposes. Patient beware.
Those websites also get that information from places like the DMV, banks, telephone companies, Facebook, pharmacies, insurance companies, etc.
Trans-Union either sold their data or had it stolen as their data about me is on the public web sites. There are some rather unusual, and incorrect, things about me that are only on the Trans-Union credit report but not the other credit reporting agencies. That same unusual/incorrect information is on the public web sites which how I know they got their data from Trans-Union.
‘Stupid is as stupid does’.
If folks take the time, they are perfectly able to systematically contact companies like My Space, Been Verified, etc. and demand to be removed from their database. If the companies prove to be reluctant, ask them the number of their legal department and/or the address to send the “proper” papers, this will get their attention as it costs them a lot less to lose a few “fish” than paying “nuisance” lawsuits!
I read a few stories how French Bull dog owners were luring thieves by posting adorable pictures of their very expensive pets. There have been violent assaults on owners and dog walkers, etc. so imagine what a field day it would be for child traffickers to stalk people’s children; I do not understand the thought processes of folks who are opening up their lives to ne’er-do-wells, it is difficult enough to protect the wee ones?!