What is digital kidnapping?

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asked May 30, 2020 in Internet by 889defalio9 (400 points)
What is digital kidnapping?

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answered May 30, 2020 by Zxmick66 (540 points)
The meaning of digital kidnapping is where a person takes a persons photos such as a child's photos or other minors photos from the internet and then claims to be that minor or the minors parents.

Basically for example if I were to take your child's photos that I found on the internet such as on your Facebook page and then uploaded those photos to my own Facebook page and claim those children or other minors or minor as being my kid then that would be an example of digital kidnapping.

So you need to be very careful when posting a minors or your kids photos online.

I would never want to post my kids photos online because once the kids photos are online you can never really take them down.

It's very easy for someone to save your kids pictures and even when you delete the pictures from your part of the internet people can still upload them because they save them to their computer.

Digital Kidnapping is most commonly done to reveal private or sensitive information that negatively impacts the child's life, making it difficult to gain acceptance to college, or subjecting them to bullying.

If you are a minor you should avoid posting pictures of yourself online because once you do post those pictures online you can never take them back.

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