What happens to pics when you post them
Anyone who is searching the internet can come across the photos and videos you post. This includes people you’ve never met before, who you might not want looking at them!
Once you post a video or photo online, you lose control over what happens to it. As well as looking at the images you post, anyone who finds them online can save them, alter them in ways you might not be happy about, and use them for whatever they want. They may even post your images on other websites without asking your permission.
Did you know . . .?
Computer programmes exist that can morph or change photographs from what they originally looked like. Someone using these programmes could cut your head from a photo and paste it onto the body of a dog . . . or worse!
Lucy's story
Lucy decides to ask her friends’ permission before posting the photos from her party on the internet. She’s happy when everyone says “Yes”.
A few days after Lucy’s dad posts the photos on the family’s website, he receives an email. Some guy in Wales has been looking at Lucy’s photos, and is wondering where they got the ‘Pin the Tail on the Taniwha’ game that’s in some of them. He got Lucy’s family email address from the website.
Lucy looks up Wales in her atlas – it’s a long way away from New Zealand! She never realized that people on the other side of the world might look at her photos. While she thinks it’s pretty cool, she’s also a little bit worried that people she doesn’t know will be able to share her special memories of her birthday.
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