Thursday, May 28, 2015

17% of parents ignore privacy settings but still post hundreds of photos of kids online

From Sophos Naked Security:


17% of parents ignore privacy settings but still post hundreds of photos of kids online


The average parent is like a loving but voracious paparazzi, uploading an eyeball-popping 973 photos of their child on social media by the time he or she reaches the age of 5.


That's the news coming out of online safety site The Parent Zone, which did some research on the subject of children and privacy on behalf of safety campaign knowthenet.


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Just ask the kitty-stalking Owen Mundy about that type of data: about a year ago, the data analyst/artist/associate professor gathered up photos of cats from images online, the privacy settings for which made APIs publicly available on sites like Flickr, Twitpic, Instagram or the like.


Then he geolocated the pussycats, and he published a map showing where the cats lived.


You could easily swap out cats for kids, and the creepiness of being able to trace a child's photo to his or her address would truly sink in.


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Many parents also mistakenly believe that they own the rights to their photos.


39% of those polled reported believing that they own the sole rights to images posted on Facebook, and 17% think the same for Instagram.


In fact, the terms and conditions for both of those sites, as well as other social media platforms, state that the companies have the right to use uploaded images to promote their services without explicitly asking the permission of the person that uploaded the photo.

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