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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Johana Bhuiyan

Opt out: how to protect your baby’s photos on the internet

hands holding phones and cameras with flashing lights as a baby's hand reaches up
‘[Embarrassing baby photos are] a cringe-inducing rite of passage, but it’s different when that cringe is felt around the world and can never be deleted,’ said Stop director Albert Fox Cahn. Illustration: Angelica Alzona/Guardian Design, source images via Getty Images

Welcome to Opt Out, a semi-regular column in which we help you navigate your online privacy and show you how to say no to surveillance. If you’d like to skip to a section about a particular risk you’re trying to protect your child against, click the “Jump to” menu at the top of this article. Last week’s column covered how to opt yourself out of tech companies using your posts to train artificial intelligence.

You’ve got the cutest baby ever, and you want the world to know it. But you’re also worried about what might happen to your baby’s picture once you release it into the nebulous world of the internet. Should you post it?

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