What have we learned about blogging, Facebook, and Cambridge Analytica



Concerns have been raised this past week by experts about the amount of information being collected and dispersed by a few giant internet companies after widespread reports that U.K. - based Cambridge Analytica used data from more than 50 million Facebook accounts to influence the 2016 USA presidential election.  

Folks are also starting to wonder how secure their personal information is on social media networks. News reports claim that it increasingly depends on where people live and access the web on the planet. Keeping ones privacy online is no longer - and may never have been -  easy, if at all possible. 

While there are articles that provide users with advice and guidelines on how to use the internet in ways that protect the personal privacy of users, many people still give away personal information about themselves and often about their children through their blogs and online posts. 

At this time of being sensitive to what is being posted online - pediatricians, researchers, and advocates are developing a public health campaign that addresses sharenting concerns. They remind bloggers to adopt a “child-centered perspective” because there are no legal policies in place that offer our youth a way to address conflicts that arise from sharenting. They note, "it’s up to the next generation of parents to reform digital habits to ensure that their children can exercise their privacy rights, freely define their personalities, and evolve their digital footprints on their own terms."   

It's imperative that parents be aware of, and attentive to, the impact that social sharing has on children of parents who’ve become so accustomed to freely distributing intimate details of their children's lives. 

While the GDPR “right to be forgotten” provision applies directly to this principle in the EU, the US and Canada do not have such laws in place. Under the GDPR the “right to be forgotten” provision, individuals (including infants and children) have a right to request their personal information be scoured from search engine results. It is up to parents at this point to protect the privacy of their babies and children, when over 90% of 2 year-olds in the US had an online presence as of 2010. 



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