The separation between our private and public lives was soon to become even more blurred with the declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic back in March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), resulting in lockdowns of varying severity across most of the world. Apart from the practical aspects of needing to spend more time online and in the virtual world, sharing otherwise private moments from our lives also became a way of ensuring human connection. With students cut off not just from attending class, but also from extracurricular activities, attending classes online became the norm. “The biggest problem that I see for any type of fraud or risk facing children, especially during the pandemic or as a result of the pandemic, was the need for parents and children to rely on digital devices for remote learning,” said Kristen Walker, a digital privacy expert and professor of marketing at California State University, Northridge.
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