🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)22h ago

#PSA: posting photos and videos of your kids online ensures they'll never be able to meaningfully opt out of privacy invasion.

80% of children have an online presence by age two, with parents sharing an average of 1,500 images before their fifth birthday. —2017, Northumbria University

By the age of 13, children have had an average of 1,300 photos and videos of themselves posted to social media by their parents. —2018, UK Children's Commissioner

#Privacy #DataPrivacy

Show threadZenHeathen 🇨🇦
@alice We saw the potential danger early on, and didn't put any photos or videos of our child online, as a very deliberate choice. As he (he's starting his Trans journey, but so far still uses male pronouns) grew, we talked about the potential danger, the elimination of choice putting yourself out there too much entails. Now in high school, he gets school assignments like, "talk about your favourite photo of you online", and he's just, "no. it's not there, for good reason, and you shouldn't be encouraging it". He's a very smart young person.
Mar 24 at 9:25pmWeb
Show thread🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)20h ago
@ZenHeathen good for him! My kid is smarter than most about that too, after years of me showing them how easy it is to go from a random selfie to someone's home address and relationship status with some careful searching and a couple tools.
Show threadFennix19h ago

@ZenHeathen @alice

Man this reminded me of a story I was told by someone after delivering an OSINT basics talk: the person told me that they had school projects in elementary school that were like "take a bunch of photos of your family and pets and house and make a little website for your family." These were then of course posted at live URLs for everyone to see.

There's an astounding number of reasons to want to not plaster your kid's face everywhere you're able, and it really sucks that people try to insist on stuff like that when kids are still just learning how the world works, let alone figuring out who they are.