Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner is investigating Instagram over how the platform handles personal data of children. If the company has broken any privacy laws, Facebook, the parent company could be liable to pay a huge fine. Recently, reports highlighting Instagram’s inability to protect data gained traction online. According to the reports, Instagram allowed email addresses and phone numbers of minors, or those aged below 18, to become public.
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Facebook and Instagram need to crack down on this and make it more difficult for people to expose their data.
The most important piece of information that will be taken into account here is the trade-off. Children were offered additional analytics on their posts, provided they shared their contact details.
The corresponding side of the trade-off is the phone and email contact information becomes public, this public data has already been misused as we have seen from the breach in India from May 2019, so a question needs to be asked: should children have even been given the option to expose their.....Read More
Vendors have the utmost responsibility for compliance and transparency.
For obvious reasons, children’s data collection and protection have very specific handling in many jurisdictions and called out in GDPR very specifically. While a data protection regulator is no substitute for parenting and education to ensure children begin to understand how their data is eventually used, vendors have the utmost responsibility for compliance and transparency. In GDPR Article 8, the consent requirements, age limitations, and responsibilities are very clear, especially around.....Read More
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