August 16, 2026 — 5:00am

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Parents are demanding the NSW Department of Education overhaul its social media policies after it was revealed how easily student photos could be mass-harvested using artificial intelligence, warning that children are being put at risk.

For $20, Central Coast parent and digital marketing specialist Ben Fitzpatrick used an AI tool to find the Facebook pages of 1780 NSW public schools. While he stopped short of downloading children’s photos, the experiment proved anyone can mass harvest the images of schoolchildren.

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