🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)Mar 24

#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 threadEdward
@alice are they actually identifiable as adults from images of really young children?
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Show thread🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)6d ago
@yugthebug that's not so much the issue as it is that now companies have an incredible amount of information about little kids and can keep tracking them throughout their lives.
Show threadEdward6d ago
@alice source? Edit: im not for posting images of children online I just am curious whether or not companies actually can do that
Show thread🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)5d ago

@yugthebug source: 15 years working as a data executive for tech companies.

By law (here), social platforms aren't supposed to have users under 13 (without parent consent, and with a lot of restrictions), but the same restrictions don't really apply to their parent's photos and info.

It's gross, and capitalism ruins everything.

https://www.parents.com/us-attorneys-general-sue-meta-for-targeting-kids-8379465

Show threadEdward5d ago
@alice yeah ok wow