From Today Moms:
“I can’t control the privacy settings that somebody else has on their Facebook page, and Facebook is always changing what those privacy settings are, so… you even can’t keep up with it as a user,” Elmuts, who founded ConsciousParents.org, told TODAY Moms.
From IVillage:
“Carrin Jade is a blogger at Welcome to Motherhood. She is careful about which photos of her children she shares on her Facebook Page and Twitter Account.
She woke up one day to emails and voice mail messages alerting her to the fact a photo of her children was being used by a stranger claiming the boy wearing the pink cast was in fact her child, except it wasn’t. The Photo of her son had been posted by the Humans of New York website and a stranger had claimed they were her children.”
From Women in the World:
“Of course, growing up in such a visual world—where kids are online in some way from nearly the moment they’re born—may affect their development in ways we can’t yet know. Already, studies have found that more than 90 percent of Americans have an online history by the time they’re two, and that too much multimedia content has been linked in some kids to limited attention span, poor focus, lower comprehension, and a greater risk for depression.”
From Gizmodo:
“This is not only about privacy, it’s also about your child’s identity. We are human beings, not amoebas. How would you like it if your mother and father were in charge of your social media presence? That’s what you’re doing to your children.”
“Judging by the abundance of pictures in Flickr’s database that include geolocation data in the EXIF, some smartphone owners aren’t thinking twice about opting into their devices’ GPS feature.”
From PBS:
“Many bloggers admit that parents who blog or post their children’s pictures online walk a fine line between sharing the news of Junior’s latest accomplishment and encroaching upon his privacy and safety.”
From WM Parenting Connection:
“When you post pictures of your family online, anyone can download them and save them to their computer. It is not uncommon for these downloaded images to be used in media and marketing without the parents consent.”
From Naked Security:
“Many people may be unaware that lots of smart phones geo-tag photos that they take with information about where they were taken. The location data isn’t visible to the naked eye in the photo, it’s embedded as encoded meta-data inside the picture, alongside information about what type of camera was used, camera settings, and so forth.”
From CBS New York:
“Christina Parker was posting photos of her dog when she received an ominous message from a stranger, saying he knew exactly where she was.
“I thought it was a little scary – they were accurate to my location from my house,” Parker said. “My immediate response was, ‘what happened, how do you know where I am?’”
From the New York Daily News:
“Not only can photos be stolen and used by strangers, but many photos, especially those taken by phones or devices with GPS technology, contain tags that reveal exactly where the photos were snapped. In other words, if a parent takes a photo of his or her child playing at home and then posts it online, it’s possible for strangers to know exactly where they live.”
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