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#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

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DFX4509B (Joshua Mason)5h ago

@alice Oh, and one more thing, if you really want to take family pics, guys, do not use your fucking phones for this shit because as someone else pointed out, even if you don't put said pics online, Google or Apple will still back that shit up to do who knows what with it, instead use a dedicated still cam that has no online functionality, eg. like a used 10+ year-old DSLR, so you can keep your pics stored locally on an external hard drive or something and keep them completely offline, or hell, even use something like an Instax if you wanna go fully analog with it and keep a physical album around.

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)5h ago

@dfx4509b hell, even use an old phone with no internet connection if you want something small.

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DFX4509B (Joshua Mason)

@alice As for video, that would actually be kind of a fun use for an analog camcorder, still, even in 2026, although you'll need some decent way to digitize footage in your workflow when it comes to editing stuff.