ProTechThem – Building Awareness for Safer and Technology-Savvy Sharenting, is a research project that is led by the University of Southampton (Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology) and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Grant Number: ES/V011278/1.
The project brings together social and computer science expertise to explore the risks and harms of sharenting for affected children. These include grooming, identity-related crimes (for example, identity fraud and identity theft).
ProTechThem aims to develop awareness-raising tools and automated preventative measures for improving cyber security behaviours amongst parents, guardians, schools, and others who post information about children online. You can access more information and various cybersecurity resources on this site.