United Kingdom, April 7 -- Parents have been urged to treat their children's online privacy as seriously as stranger danger and road safety.

The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) regulator says that new research shows that three in four parents fear that their kids are unable to make safe online privacy choices.

An ICO survey found that 35 per cent of parents think that their child would "share personal information in exchange for game tokens or rewards".

The survey of 1,000 UK parents with children aged between four and 11 found that 22 per cent of kids have shared personal details such as health data with AI tools and 24 per cent have shared their real name and address online, with eight and nine-year-olds at the most significa...