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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (14 children)

Managing digital photos is quite hard to do reliably.

Where do you store them? Optical disc, it might get mushrooms; HDD, mechanism might fail; SSD or flash, this one's better but it might get corrupted, and so on.

Cloud services provide a convenient solution to all this, than apart from the service going down (which is less likely) have no other issues. You can also access them wherever you are.

Privacy is an important concern. It would be nice to have them encrypted on cloud. Encrypted from a local and trusted (open source) client, that is also convenient. If each time I want to show a photo to my granny I have to download and gpg a file manually, I pass.

But most people don't care about their privacy at all anyways, so why bother.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I use 23Snaps. Gated social sharing among your contacts.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I share via Signal, and with links to my Immich instance (sent over Signal). Certainly susceptible to security problems since yours truly set it up, but what you gonna do...

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Interesting how there are so many mentions of people worried about AI and only sharing photos in closed groups on Instagram/Facebook. I'm not sure that's actually keeping the photos away from AI.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I really hope it becomes the new normal to stop posting everything about ourselves non-anonymously online in general. But especially photos and information about kids. I am hopeful that in the near future, we'll all look back and say "What the fuck were we thinking? We all looked like narcissists exploiting our kids for likes!"

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago

My friends keep my photos offline too.

Anything that's genuinely good, is good in more ways than just "for the children".

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