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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you do that then you of course will make your child wear a mask at all times out in public. [/quote]

+100. I genuinely want to know what issue people see with pics of their kids online. No one cares about looking at a random kid. Get over yourselves.[/quote]

Sure.  Let's pretend stalking, bullying, harassment, discrimination, and identity theft don't exist for a minute, and that the law they passed in MD about employers using social media to check people out exists for no reason at all., and that you're totally ok with stuff like your kid's image being used in advertising without their permission or any kind of compensation.

All that stuff about Google or Facebook or amazon or anyone else snooping around and tracking everything you do online so that they can sell your data to marketers is not only just fine with you, but that you also have the right to make that decision for someone who couldn't legally consent to any of this even if they did understand it.   Yahoo and Experian were only in the news because no Kardashians farted that day.  I'm not even going to get into the details of the international ring of sickos that just got busted and are now in the news.  Obviously they started out somewhere, and it probably wasn't the darknet.

Hard to say what it would take (other than something bad actually happening to someone they care about) for some of these posters, but just that last bit is enough for me.  Just facebook can automatically tag a photo with a real name.  So that, plus If you post little Larla's first cake smash,  show someone's house number or a recognizable street sign, pretty soon there's enough for a bad actor to start applying for loans, credit cards, or taking other steps to establish a kid's identity as their own.  So then the kid turns 18 and finds out their credit is trashed and they can't get a student loan.   I don't know about you, but this is stuff most people never even considered 10 years ago, yet here we are.  Do you think it's fair to expose a kid to any of that?

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You think most identity theft occurs from people scouring the internet for photos posted from grandparents and parents? You’re nuts!
It’s from data breaches. Unless you plan to do no banking or use insurance or any number of things that require a SSN, your child could have their identity stolen.

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Ok.  I'm not sure I'm following you at the end there, but that's not what I said.   I did specifically mention Equifax, and yes, SSN is a huge concern--the Equifax breach is part of why people should be very concerned about this.  SSN is damaging enough.  But SSN + birthdate + location = basically, somebody could probably get a junk mortgage with just that information.  We can't control Equifax, it's done.  So why make it even easier to get the rest of the pieces?  That, we do still have some control over.   We're (presumably) adults, and get to decide what level of risk we're ok with.  It's not right to decide to expose a child like that.  There are lots of ways to be grandma without social media or posting photos online.  We managed for most of human history, I assure you that it is still possible.

But ok, I think we're done here.  I've answered several of your questions, and at this point I'm certain enough that this isn't just a basic case of low information.  If you were inclined, a  quick google search for "children photos safety online" or even "How does identity theft work" would clear much of this up for you without your having to argue with internet strangers any more.  Good luck![/quote]
A photo of larlas first step does not equal giving people your child’s SSN. 
Use the google machine to search paranoia. [/quote]

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