Officials ranging from the Better Business Bureau to the RNC are cautioning parents about the information shared online about their children.

The first day of school often comes with pictures of students flooding social media feeds, but the information shared in those pictures could pose a security risk.

Julia Lewis of the BBB says scammers use information compiled from public social media to help develop a “full picture” of their potential victims’ lives.

Many people share first day of school pictures of their children with a blackboard detailing their age, and other identifying information. That, says Lewis, can provide scammers with exactly the type of information they need.

“Sharing details like your child’s age, and their school and their name can put you at risk.”

Lewis says many people may picture a scammer as an individual sorting through profiles, but it’s actually AI technology scraping large amounts of information.

“Typically they’re using AI tools and that kind of thing, scraping large volumes of information from multiple sources to just kind of bring that together and make a full picture of you.”

The RNC is also warning people about the information they share, with an example of the right way and wrong way to share pictures of your little scholars online.