Is your child’s photo on their school Facebook page? What does this mean for their privacy?

If you search most primary or high school websites, you will likely find images of happy, smiling children. Student’s images are also used publicly for school newsletters, social media accounts and other school publications like annual reports. Parents could reasonably expect that schools and education departments have conducted thorough checks and evaluations to do this. To some degree this is true, but a recent AI scare where children’s images were used in a massive training data set included some photos from school websites. Research also shows schools can do more to promote children’s rights to privacy. Parents and governments are Read More