Parents are increasingly rethinking what it means to create an online footprint their child can’t actively consent to.
Here’s a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It’s great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.
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I have not posted a single photo of my kids on any platform for this reason. My wife on the other hand thinks I’m overly paranoid, so thanks to her, Zuck has a ton of photos of them…
Here’s a real screenshot from Instagram.
Oh my
Is that a porn genAI ad next to photos of underage kids? 💀
Yeah…
A video to share with your wife (yt link). Enjoy.
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Powerful vid.
I 1000% will
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