Are your kids online? Should they be?

August 4th, 2008

I’ve just published a new article over at The Blogfathers regarding online privacy, photo sharing, and blogging about your kids. Please visit and share your comments. Here’s an excerpt:

I’ve often considered the important issue of online privacy for myself and my family. I’m not concerned with any of the crazy kidnap/murder/stalking scenarios that the media likes to play up. Just, in general, I think people should be able to control what personal information about them gets onto the internet. I have never posted the real name of anyone in my family. But I wonder if it makes any difference in the long run? A recent development has got me rethinking my strategy. Namely, face recognition in public search engines.

Read the rest at The Blogfathers…