Kids often have digital footprints even before they’re born, and their parents are to blame.
I got my first iPhone in 2009, just a few months after the birth of my first child. Immediately, I created a Facebook account and started sharing photos of my adorable baby. I had stayed away from Facebook while undergoing fertility procedures, but once my son arrived, I couldn’t resist posting plenty of pics.
In effect, I was leaving a digital trail of crumbs for data brokers who could collect information such as my son’s name and birthday from my posts. With facial recognition technology, they are able to remember his features, and with location tracking, they can figure out where he lived. Tolentino managed to keep up the ruse for five months. When she decided to give up the jig and bought a pair of maternity pants online, she said, ads for baby carriers started appearing on her Instagram account within a matter of minutes.
All of this can leave parents feeling scared and powerless, wondering if there’s any way to prevent their children from being groomed into docile digital consumers. Interestingly, Berg has found that the way parents act on this fear varies among cultures. Through her research, she has learned that German and Austrian parents tend not to share photos of their children on social media, and Malaysian parents are attentive to turning off location tagging and not sharing their children’s names or birthdates.
Group chats, WhatsApp groups and other private spaces offer alternative ways to share photos of your child and keep friends and family updated on their activities.protects kids younger than 13 from sharing information online without parental approval, although Kelly noted that “most of the time this isn’t enough because privacy policies are too obtuse and difficult to understand.
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