Parents like to pick up their big moments, from the first steps to Christmas candles.
But a new study outside the United Kingdom shows that many of those images that are proud of it may be examined, analyzed and converted into data with cloud storage services, and about half of the parents do not realize it.
A survey included 2019 from UK’s parents, It was conducted by the global perspective And assigning Swiss Privacy Tech Company Proton, I found that 48 % of parents were unaware like Google Photos, Apple iCloud, Amazon Photos and Dropbox can access the images they download.
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These companies Using artificial intelligence To sort pictures in albums, identify faces and sites and suggest memories. Although it is comfortable, technology itself can also have more dangerous uses, such as DeepFake.
Professor Carsten Maple, a cybersecurity expert at Warwick University, warns that with at least 20 pictures, artificial intelligence tools can create a convincing digital reproduction of a person, including DeepFake Videos. These tools do not need a high -resolution examination or video clips, but just a handful of Daily pictures in the cloud.
“Parents unintentionally open their children to the potential exploitation by criminals who want to use their data for their purposes,” Maple said to the Edinburgh newspaper in the evening.
He added that even worldly images, such as a child at school or in the backyard, can reveal names and sites. Fifty -three percent of the parents who were included in the survey do not have any idea that this was possible.
Protect your daughter from Deepfakes and online abuse
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More than half of the parents, 56 %, have an enabled automatic imaging downloads, which means that their phones constantly send new pictures to the cloud without having to click on “download”.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
Even without Deepfakes, collecting data is wide. Only 43 % of parents knew that cloud services collect descriptive data such as time, date and location, and only 36 % of the poll realized that these companies analyze the contents of the images as well.
Anxiety is to be comfortable. Nearly three of every four parents (72 %) said that the privacy of the image is important, and 69 % acknowledged the dangers of digital feet that left them online storage online.
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Although the study was conducted in the United Kingdom, its results apply worldwide. American families use the same technology Platforms and face the same questions: Where are the pictures of children going? Who looks at them? What can it turn into?
In the era of artificial intelligence, the family image is not just a memory, but also data that can be wiped, stored and selling, and increasingly, is manipulated in deep fish.
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