Children’s Photos Online - Destroy Their Privacy from the GetGo
June 10th, 2007This Yahoo! Tech story is the first time I have seen anyone in the mainstream have any concern about privacy.
Even many oldsters are banging the drum “Privacy is impossible anymore, just forget about it”. Ok, let’s say that’s good advice (though I don’t think so). How smart is it to flaunt your life on the internet? Yes it works for Paris Hilton, but she obviously is in it for something other than the money.
I am glad to see that videos, photos, etc can now be posted with limited access on sites such as Youtube; but even before that was possible, many just don’t seem to care.
If you don’t care about your own privacy, fine. Perhaps I should include some links here to identity theft help websites. But think twice before screwing it up for your children, other people’s children or even other friends and acquaintances who you happen to have captured with your digital photography.
And while you are at it, remember those naive youngsters who have been fired or not hired because of what their employer or potential employer read on their myspace page or captured at the corporate firewall from their IM.
Loose lips sink ships, as they used to say. And if a picture is still worth a thousand words, then what’s a video worth?
