Genitori oltraggiati quando Meta usa le foto di studentesse in annunci mirati all’uomo
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man
di tw1st3d_m3nt4t
Genitori oltraggiati quando Meta usa le foto di studentesse in annunci mirati all’uomo
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man
di tw1st3d_m3nt4t
14 commenti
This only happens if the profile is public, and only if the account owner is an adult, and it recommends things it thinks you are interested in.
Outrage over nothing. Change the privacy settings.
Big corps are scraping everything for AI and this was the obvious result. Good thing our government isn’t doing anything to stop this illegal activity as for all they scream about copyright protection when it comes to AI they’re pirating everything they can find.
“This picture I posted publicly on Instagram was seen by a random man!” what?
I’m sure the algorithm thought, “this man lingers on images of women! Show him the schoolgirls!”
algorithms are terrible
Facebook knows what it is doing and doesn’t care.
The parents sharing these images don’t know what they’re doing or why they should care.
Wasn’t it pretty common knowledge a decade or more ago that anything you upload to Facebook could be used as they liked once it was on there? How are people shocked by this from another part of the same company still? If you want privacy and control, don’t put you photos on social media, it’s very easy not to do so.
Let me get this straight: parents are posting photos of their kids publicly on Instagram, a few thousand people see them, mostly men, and the parents complain the photos are sexualized and exploitative?
But… THEY’RE the ones posting these “sexualized” photos publicly?? And now these photos are in a newspaper?
I do have sympathy for the person who didn’t realize posts from private Instagram could get cross posted to public Threads, but not the ones just openly posting publicly and complaining.
Parents should stop cataloguing their children’s life in photos and posting it online. Isn’t it obvious that no part of the internet can guarantee privacy. Privacy settings aren’t safe, even your bank and health details can be accessed by those in the know. By posting your kids photos you could be providing content for some pretty nasty characters.
Tsk. These parents need to get with the times.
Protection, diversity, equality: These things are out of fashion now.
Cruelty? Divisiveness? Fucking kids? That’s all on its way back in.
Haven’t you noticed how corporations are suddenly not falling over themselves to make sure every advert has a gay couple, a mixed race couple and someone trans? They’ve sniffed the change in the wind and are reacting.
Meta and the other social media giants had a head start because their CEOs were all at Trump’s coronation. I’m sure it was all explained to them there.
I’ve had these creepy jailb4it Threads adverts on my Instagram feed for months, probably over a year. These are some of the adverts I get. These ads for Threads appear regularly and are quite disturbing. https://imgur.com/a/KjQ5JMM
I assumed everyone was getting these. I didn’t think they were targeted at me since I’m gay and I’m sure the algorithm knows that from all the gay accounts I follow. I find it very weird that Facebook decides this is suitable to advertise their Threads platform.
I mean it’s bad, but we’ve known for years that you shouldn’t post stuff online unless you want people to see it. Parents shouldn’t be allowing their children to post pictures in problematic outfits in the first place, the issue isn’t that a man saw it, it’s that it’s online at all
“not for any money in the world would i let them use my daughter in an advert”
No. You did it for free yer fucken div.
Moral of the story: stop trusting these corpos with your data. They can and will use whatever is posted on there for their own financial gain, no matter the context.
The fact this kind of BS still isn’t regulated after the big data leak with Cambridge analytica years ago is baffling
Don’t post pictures of your kids online without any restrictions if you don’t want them to go everywhere on the Internet.
Levels of technical literacy like this are the reason we’ve ended up with the sledgehammer that is the Online Safety Act.
Why don’t schools give a free half day course to parents about online safety for their kids? Basic stuff, which apps to use to monitor activity etc.
So is The Guardian and this Reddit post.
The agreements that few people read cover all of this. From the latest Microsoft 365 agreement, we have;
”*you grant Microsoft a worldwide and royalty free intellectual property licence to use Your Content, for example, to make copies of, retain, transmit, reformat, distribute via communication tools and display Your Content on the Services. If you publish Your Content in areas of the Service where it is rendered available online publicly or without restrictions, Your Content may appear in demonstrations or materials that promote the Service*”.