I love how all of facebook's privacy settings are set to 'use and abuse me' and periodically get reset to such every now and again. It used to tell you what shopping your friends did, like if your boyfriend bought an engagement ring. When asked if he thought this was a good thing Zuckerberg's answer was basically, "Yes."
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2025
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The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.
STOP POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR CHILDREN ON THE INTERNET. Even IF Meta weren't going to use the photos for advertising purposes, that shit is still public. Even if you set it to "friends only", you don't know everybody on your friend list as well as you'd like to think.
STOP POSTING PICTURES OF YOUR CHILDREN ON THE INTERNET.
Stop using Facebook/Instagram.
When I give pictures of my children to data mining company and data mining company uses them for weird stuff.
"Who could have seen this coming? They'd been so privacy focused until now!"
2010 they changed privacy policy, even if I had everything locked down, that policy let them use my "friends" access level to glean data. Byebye facebook
Don't post your children online.
Don't use Facebook.
Thats the same vibe as: Don't drive your kids to school, you might get hit by a drunk driver. Meta will take any image, per previous claims, they don't care if it was public or not
which is why you don't put it online in the first place, as the user said..
Personally I don't, I don't have facebook, I'm degoogled, I self host my images on an immich server, etc. But we should nt be victim blaming, companies like meta should be accountable and develop better policies
It's moreso like asking the drunk driver to take your kids to school
No. You are doing something legal in good faith and the other person is being devious.
Just because something is legal doesn't make it right.
Thats the same vibe as: Don’t drive your kids to school, [because] you might get hit by a drunk driver.
Nope. The poster is choosing to put the PII online, and cannot guarantee privacy. In IT Security, "How do you know" is the most powerful phrase; and for Facebook/Meta/etc, you just don't.
This is a fundamental rule since childhood ("If you're coming home late from band practice, stay in a group because of the cougar") and I'm not sure where you missed it.
Hang on, so I need to upload government ID and/or a selfie in order to access "adult material" in order to protect kids but Meta trying to bait men with pictures of girls under the age of consent is perfectly fine? What the fuck is happening?
"Rules for thee, but not for me."
Meta is a disgusting company and Zuckerberg is an embarrassment for humanity.
That being said, the parents of those kids are stupid fucking idiots who should feel ashamed for exposing their own kids on such a shithole of social media.
There are a shocking number of people who still think Facebook is a good way for Grandma to see back-to-school photos, and either are unaware or don't care that ceased to be central to the platform while Obama was in office. Inertia is a bitch. And so is Zuck.
This is just the vast vast vast majority of people.
Us privacy awares are less than one % of the population.
Multiple people within the company allowed that to happen. The brightest minds money can buy. Cumulative experience that can be measured in decades either did not forsee this or shrugged it off as "not their problem."
Nasty.