Expert warns against posting photos of children online. "Their safety is at stake."
When posting a child's photo online, it's worth asking ourselves why we're doing it – to attract attention, to show off? The child's safety and right to privacy are at stake, Łukasz Wojtasik from the Empowering Children Foundation noted in an interview with PAP.
Sharenting (English: share and parenting) refers to parents disclosing information via social media that violates a child's privacy. Research shows that 40% of parents in Poland share photos and videos of their children online. However, according to researchers from the University of Silesia, the true scale of sharenting is difficult to estimate due to the complexity of the phenomenon.
"Especially during the holidays, when we feel the added temptation to share our lives full of travel experiences and interesting situations, it's worth asking ourselves why we post photos of our children? Perhaps we want to attract attention or show off to others? But do we really need to do this? And is it okay to use a child's image for personal gain?" notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who is responsible for child safety online at the Children's Education Foundation (FDDS).
He emphasized that in the age of artificial intelligence, posting even seemingly "innocent" photos of children in full clothing on social media platforms is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be manipulated into child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or ridicule.
"These used to be isolated incidents, but today young people tell us that it's absolutely standard to browse the profiles of people they meet at a new school or class, as well as those of their parents or loved ones. It's natural for young people to search for information about their peers online, but in doing so, they can come across content that embarrasses them or may be uncomfortable for them," he explained. "Open profiles, accessible to people outside their narrow circle of friends, unprotected from access by others, provide material that can and is used against children, for example in acts of peer cyberbullying," he added.
Another real threat to security is when children are present on the Internet and parents provide information about them, for example, which school they attend.
"This makes it easier to track down a child, which facilitates activities such as grooming. These activities lead to meeting a child for sexual purposes or obtaining pornographic materials from children," said Wojtasik.
The current law only regulates the issue of children's images in a sexual context – it doesn't allow, among other things, publishing photos of naked children, the expert explains. However, when it comes to general presentation of a child's image, as long as both parents or legal guardians consent – and in any case, neither of them objects – it is legal.
We must also acknowledge the child's subjectivity and always ask for their consent to publication – as soon as they reach the age at which they are able to make an informed decision – or explain why, for example, their face is obscured in photos posted on social media.
"The minimum requirement seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations, or potentially embarrassing them. However, knowing how harmful publishing an image can be, the optimum is to not publish photos of children at all," the expert assessed.
According to Wojtasik, such an approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety first – although it is understandable that for some people "such erasing of the child from the online world" may be too radical or controversial.
– However, defending “children’s rights” on the Internet by a person who, up to a certain point, posed an almost iconic threat to children’s well-being on the Internet by presenting herself in a sexual manner in materials addressed to, or at least widely available to, children, and who, as a mother, has been monetizing her child’s image on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable to me and seems to be more of a search for publicity or justification for her commercial activity, rather than a manifestation of real concern for the safety and well-being of children – he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of establishing a foundation “popularizing the image of children in public space” by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details about her life, including her personal ones. Last year, she posted a video of her birth online, capturing the first moments of her daughter's life. Since then, numerous photos and videos of the little girl have appeared online.
A few days ago, informing her online followers about the foundation she had established, the influencer wrote: "We are standing up to movements that want to eliminate children's images from the internet. We support parents in their decisions related to sharing."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to Raise Girls", and privately a mother of two daughters, believes that it is possible to create content for parents and share their experiences without relying on the image of their children.
– From the very beginning, I built my brand by sharing knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life – Korczyńska told PAP.
She believes that as a parent, she's responsible for her children's safety, which is why she doesn't want to post their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to her daughters about online safety and knows they're aware of many dangers.
"However, these are still children who lack sufficient competence and are not fully aware of the risks we take by posting a photo on social media," she concluded. She added that materials published, even with good intentions, will never disappear from the internet.
During a single operation in the fall of 2024, officers from the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime detained 75 people and seized over 7,500 devices, including phones, laptops, computers, and data storage devices, containing over a million files depicting the sexual exploitation of minors. The devices also contained photographs of children downloaded from social media platforms and previously posted on public profiles by their parents and loved ones.
"The law doesn't prohibit publishing photos of children; it's an individual decision for parents. However, this should be accompanied by an awareness that the shared materials could be used by people with malicious intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children's photos to reach these people," Deputy Commissioner Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press office told PAP.
According to the Teenagers 3.0 report, published in 2023 by the Scientific and Academic Computer Network – National Research Institute, 45.5% of teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image online, and almost one in four (23.8%) admits that they feel embarrassed about it, while one in five (19%) feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
ksc/ mark/ amac/
When posting a child's photo online, it's worth asking ourselves why we're doing it – to attract attention, to show off? The child's safety and right to privacy are at stake, Łukasz Wojtasik from the Empowering Children Foundation noted in an interview with PAP.
Sharenting (English: share and parenting) refers to parents disclosing information via social media that violates a child's privacy. Research shows that 40% of parents in Poland share photos and videos of their children online. However, according to researchers from the University of Silesia, the true scale of sharenting is difficult to estimate due to the complexity of the phenomenon.
"Especially during the holidays, when we feel the added temptation to share our lives full of travel experiences and interesting situations, it's worth asking ourselves why we post photos of our children? Perhaps we want to attract attention or show off to others? But do we really need to do this? And is it okay to use a child's image for personal gain?" notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who is responsible for child safety online at the Children's Education Foundation (FDDS).
He emphasized that in the age of artificial intelligence, posting even seemingly "innocent" photos of children in full clothing on social media platforms is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be manipulated into child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or ridicule.
"These used to be isolated incidents, but today young people tell us that it's absolutely standard to browse the profiles of people they meet at a new school or class, as well as those of their parents or loved ones. It's natural for young people to search for information about their peers online, but in doing so, they can come across content that embarrasses them or may be uncomfortable for them," he explained. "Open profiles, accessible to people outside their narrow circle of friends, unprotected from access by others, provide material that can and is used against children, for example in acts of peer cyberbullying," he added.
Another real threat to security is when children are present on the Internet and parents provide information about them, for example, which school they attend.
"This makes it easier to track down a child, which facilitates activities such as grooming. These activities lead to meeting a child for sexual purposes or obtaining pornographic materials from children," said Wojtasik.
The current law only regulates the issue of children's images in a sexual context – it doesn't allow, among other things, publishing photos of naked children, the expert explains. However, when it comes to general presentation of a child's image, as long as both parents or legal guardians consent – and in any case, neither of them objects – it is legal.
We must also acknowledge the child's subjectivity and always ask for their consent to publication – as soon as they reach the age at which they are able to make an informed decision – or explain why, for example, their face is obscured in photos posted on social media.
"The minimum requirement seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations, or potentially embarrassing them. However, knowing how harmful publishing an image can be, the optimum is to not publish photos of children at all," the expert assessed.
According to Wojtasik, such an approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety first – although it is understandable that for some people "such erasing of the child from the online world" may be too radical or controversial.
– However, defending “children’s rights” on the Internet by a person who, up to a certain point, posed an almost iconic threat to children’s well-being on the Internet by presenting herself in a sexual manner in materials addressed to, or at least widely available to, children, and who, as a mother, has been monetizing her child’s image on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable to me and seems to be more of a search for publicity or justification for her commercial activity, rather than a manifestation of real concern for the safety and well-being of children – he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of establishing a foundation “popularizing the image of children in public space” by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details about her life, including her personal ones. Last year, she posted a video of her birth online, capturing the first moments of her daughter's life. Since then, numerous photos and videos of the little girl have appeared online.
A few days ago, informing her online followers about the foundation she had established, the influencer wrote: "We are standing up to movements that want to eliminate children's images from the internet. We support parents in their decisions related to sharing."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to Raise Girls", and privately a mother of two daughters, believes that it is possible to create content for parents and share their experiences without relying on the image of their children.
– From the very beginning, I built my brand by sharing knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life – Korczyńska told PAP.
She believes that as a parent, she's responsible for her children's safety, which is why she doesn't want to post their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to her daughters about online safety and knows they're aware of many dangers.
"However, these are still children who lack sufficient competence and are not fully aware of the risks we take by posting a photo on social media," she concluded. She added that materials published, even with good intentions, will never disappear from the internet.
During a single operation in the fall of 2024, officers from the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime detained 75 people and seized over 7,500 devices, including phones, laptops, computers, and data storage devices, containing over a million files depicting the sexual exploitation of minors. The devices also contained photographs of children downloaded from social media platforms and previously posted on public profiles by their parents and loved ones.
"The law doesn't prohibit publishing photos of children; it's an individual decision for parents. However, this should be accompanied by an awareness that the shared materials could be used by people with malicious intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children's photos to reach these people," Deputy Commissioner Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press office told PAP.
According to the Teenagers 3.0 report, published in 2023 by the Scientific and Academic Computer Network – National Research Institute, 45.5% of teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image online, and almost one in four (23.8%) admits that they feel embarrassed about it, while one in five (19%) feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
ksc/ mark/ amac/
When posting a child's photo online, it's worth asking ourselves why we're doing it – to attract attention, to show off? The child's safety and right to privacy are at stake, Łukasz Wojtasik from the Empowering Children Foundation noted in an interview with PAP.
Sharenting (English: share and parenting) refers to parents disclosing information via social media that violates a child's privacy. Research shows that 40% of parents in Poland share photos and videos of their children online. However, according to researchers from the University of Silesia, the true scale of sharenting is difficult to estimate due to the complexity of the phenomenon.
"Especially during the holidays, when we feel the added temptation to share our lives full of travel experiences and interesting situations, it's worth asking ourselves why we post photos of our children? Perhaps we want to attract attention or show off to others? But do we really need to do this? And is it okay to use a child's image for personal gain?" notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who is responsible for child safety online at the Children's Education Foundation (FDDS).
He emphasized that in the age of artificial intelligence, posting even seemingly "innocent" photos of children in full clothing on social media platforms is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be manipulated into child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or ridicule.
"These used to be isolated incidents, but today young people tell us that it's absolutely standard to browse the profiles of people they meet at a new school or class, as well as those of their parents or loved ones. It's natural for young people to search for information about their peers online, but in doing so, they can come across content that embarrasses them or may be uncomfortable for them," he explained. "Open profiles, accessible to people outside their narrow circle of friends, unprotected from access by others, provide material that can and is used against children, for example in acts of peer cyberbullying," he added.
Another real threat to security is when children are present on the Internet and parents provide information about them, for example, which school they attend.
"This makes it easier to track down a child, which facilitates activities such as grooming. These activities lead to meeting a child for sexual purposes or obtaining pornographic materials from children," said Wojtasik.
The current law only regulates the issue of children's images in a sexual context – it doesn't allow, among other things, publishing photos of naked children, the expert explains. However, when it comes to general presentation of a child's image, as long as both parents or legal guardians consent – and in any case, neither of them objects – it is legal.
We must also acknowledge the child's subjectivity and always ask for their consent to publication – as soon as they reach the age at which they are able to make an informed decision – or explain why, for example, their face is obscured in photos posted on social media.
"The minimum requirement seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations, or potentially embarrassing them. However, knowing how harmful publishing an image can be, the optimum is to not publish photos of children at all," the expert assessed.
According to Wojtasik, such an approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety first – although it is understandable that for some people "such erasing of the child from the online world" may be too radical or controversial.
– However, defending “children’s rights” on the Internet by a person who, up to a certain point, posed an almost iconic threat to children’s well-being on the Internet by presenting herself in a sexual manner in materials addressed to, or at least widely available to, children, and who, as a mother, has been monetizing her child’s image on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable to me and seems to be more of a search for publicity or justification for her commercial activity, rather than a manifestation of real concern for the safety and well-being of children – he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of establishing a foundation “popularizing the image of children in public space” by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details about her life, including her personal ones. Last year, she posted a video of her birth online, capturing the first moments of her daughter's life. Since then, numerous photos and videos of the little girl have appeared online.
A few days ago, informing her online followers about the foundation she had established, the influencer wrote: "We are standing up to movements that want to eliminate children's images from the internet. We support parents in their decisions related to sharing."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to Raise Girls", and privately a mother of two daughters, believes that it is possible to create content for parents and share their experiences without relying on the image of their children.
– From the very beginning, I built my brand by sharing knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life – Korczyńska told PAP.
She believes that as a parent, she's responsible for her children's safety, which is why she doesn't want to post their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to her daughters about online safety and knows they're aware of many dangers.
"However, these are still children who lack sufficient competence and are not fully aware of the risks we take by posting a photo on social media," she concluded. She added that materials published, even with good intentions, will never disappear from the internet.
During a single operation in the fall of 2024, officers from the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime detained 75 people and seized over 7,500 devices, including phones, laptops, computers, and data storage devices, containing over a million files depicting the sexual exploitation of minors. The devices also contained photographs of children downloaded from social media platforms and previously posted on public profiles by their parents and loved ones.
"The law doesn't prohibit publishing photos of children; it's an individual decision for parents. However, this should be accompanied by an awareness that the shared materials could be used by people with malicious intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children's photos to reach these people," Deputy Commissioner Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press office told PAP.
According to the Teenagers 3.0 report, published in 2023 by the Scientific and Academic Computer Network – National Research Institute, 45.5% of teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image online, and almost one in four (23.8%) admits that they feel embarrassed about it, while one in five (19%) feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
ksc/ mark/ amac/
When posting a child's photo online, it's worth asking ourselves why we're doing it – to attract attention, to show off? The child's safety and right to privacy are at stake, Łukasz Wojtasik from the Empowering Children Foundation noted in an interview with PAP.
Sharenting (English: share and parenting) refers to parents disclosing information via social media that violates a child's privacy. Research shows that 40% of parents in Poland share photos and videos of their children online. However, according to researchers from the University of Silesia, the true scale of sharenting is difficult to estimate due to the complexity of the phenomenon.
"Especially during the holidays, when we feel the added temptation to share our lives full of travel experiences and interesting situations, it's worth asking ourselves why we post photos of our children? Perhaps we want to attract attention or show off to others? But do we really need to do this? And is it okay to use a child's image for personal gain?" notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who is responsible for child safety online at the Children's Education Foundation (FDDS).
He emphasized that in the age of artificial intelligence, posting even seemingly "innocent" photos of children in full clothing on social media platforms is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be manipulated into child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or ridicule.
"These used to be isolated incidents, but today young people tell us that it's absolutely standard to browse the profiles of people they meet at a new school or class, as well as those of their parents or loved ones. It's natural for young people to search for information about their peers online, but in doing so, they can come across content that embarrasses them or may be uncomfortable for them," he explained. "Open profiles, accessible to people outside their narrow circle of friends, unprotected from access by others, provide material that can and is used against children, for example in acts of peer cyberbullying," he added.
Another real threat to security is when children are present on the Internet and parents provide information about them, for example, which school they attend.
"This makes it easier to track down a child, which facilitates activities such as grooming. These activities lead to meeting a child for sexual purposes or obtaining pornographic materials from children," said Wojtasik.
The current law only regulates the issue of children's images in a sexual context – it doesn't allow, among other things, publishing photos of naked children, the expert explains. However, when it comes to general presentation of a child's image, as long as both parents or legal guardians consent – and in any case, neither of them objects – it is legal.
We must also acknowledge the child's subjectivity and always ask for their consent to publication – as soon as they reach the age at which they are able to make an informed decision – or explain why, for example, their face is obscured in photos posted on social media.
"The minimum requirement seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations, or potentially embarrassing them. However, knowing how harmful publishing an image can be, the optimum is to not publish photos of children at all," the expert assessed.
According to Wojtasik, such an approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety first – although it is understandable that for some people "such erasing of the child from the online world" may be too radical or controversial.
– However, defending “children’s rights” on the Internet by a person who, up to a certain point, posed an almost iconic threat to children’s well-being on the Internet by presenting herself in a sexual manner in materials addressed to, or at least widely available to, children, and who, as a mother, has been monetizing her child’s image on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable to me and seems to be more of a search for publicity or justification for her commercial activity, rather than a manifestation of real concern for the safety and well-being of children – he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of establishing a foundation “popularizing the image of children in public space” by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details about her life, including her personal ones. Last year, she posted a video of her birth online, capturing the first moments of her daughter's life. Since then, numerous photos and videos of the little girl have appeared online.
A few days ago, informing her online followers about the foundation she had established, the influencer wrote: "We are standing up to movements that want to eliminate children's images from the internet. We support parents in their decisions related to sharing."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to Raise Girls", and privately a mother of two daughters, believes that it is possible to create content for parents and share their experiences without relying on the image of their children.
– From the very beginning, I built my brand by sharing knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life – Korczyńska told PAP.
She believes that as a parent, she's responsible for her children's safety, which is why she doesn't want to post their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to her daughters about online safety and knows they're aware of many dangers.
"However, these are still children who lack sufficient competence and are not fully aware of the risks we take by posting a photo on social media," she concluded. She added that materials published, even with good intentions, will never disappear from the internet.
During a single operation in the fall of 2024, officers from the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime detained 75 people and seized over 7,500 devices, including phones, laptops, computers, and data storage devices, containing over a million files depicting the sexual exploitation of minors. The devices also contained photographs of children downloaded from social media platforms and previously posted on public profiles by their parents and loved ones.
"The law doesn't prohibit publishing photos of children; it's an individual decision for parents. However, this should be accompanied by an awareness that the shared materials could be used by people with malicious intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children's photos to reach these people," Deputy Commissioner Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press office told PAP.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
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By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
By publishing a photo of a child on the web, it is worth asking yourself, why do we do it - to attract attention, show off? There is a child's safety and right to privacy at stake - noted in an interview with PAP Łukasz Wojtasik from the Foundation We give children strength.
Sharenting (Share - to share and parenting - parenthood) is a publication by parents through social networks, information violating the child's privacy. Studies show that in Poland 40 percent Parents are shared on the internet with photos and films depicting children. However, according to the scientists from the University of Silesia, the actual scale of sharenting is - due to the complexity of this phenomenon - difficult to estimate.
- Especially during the holidays, when we feel an additional temptation to share our lives full of away attractions and interesting situations, it is worth asking yourself, why do we publish photos of our children? Maybe we want to attract attention or show off before others? But do we really have to do this? And is the use of the child's image for your purposes okay? - notes Łukasz Wojtasik, who in FDDS is responsible for activities for the safety of children online.
He emphasized that in the era of opportunities offered by artificial intelligence, throwing into social platforms even seemingly "innocent" photos on which children are dressed is dangerous. Such photos or videos can be converted into materials showing the sexual abuse of children (so -called CSAM) or ridiculous.
- Once these were individual situations, and today young people tell us that the absolute standard is to browse both the profiles of people met in a new school or class, as well as their parents' profiles or loved ones. It is natural that young people are looking for information about peers on the web, but in this way they can find content that these people compromise or may be uncomfortable for them - he explained. - Open profiles, available to people outside the narrow group of friends, unsecured against access by others, provide materials that can be and are used against children, e.g. in peer cyberbullying files - he added.
A real threat to security is also a situation in which children are present on the Internet, and parents provide information about them, e.g. to which schools go.
- This makes it easier to track the child, which promotes, for example, seduction, i.e. grooming. These are activities that lead to a meeting with a child for sexual purposes or acquiring pornographic materials from children - said Wojtasik.
The applicable law only regulates the issue of the child's image in a sexual context - it does not allow, among others For publishing photos of naked children - explains the expert. However, when it comes to the general presentation of the child's image, while both parents or legal guardians agree - and at least none of them raises an objection - it is legal.
You must also recognize the child's subjectivity and always ask them for permission to publish - as soon as he reaches the age at which he is able to make an informed decision - whether to explain why, for example, in social media photos he covers his face.
- Such a minimum seems to be not presenting photos of children naked or in underwear, in intimate situations or potentially ridiculous child. However, knowing how harmful the publication of the image can be, the optimum is not publishing photos of the child at all - the expert said.
According to Wojtasik, this approach is justified if we actually put the child's safety in the foreground - and it can be understood that for some "such a child's conquest from the internet world" may be too radical or controversial.
- On the other hand, defending the "rights of children" on the web by a person who up to a point was an iconic threat to the child's welfare on the Internet by presenting himself in a sexual manner in the addressed materials, and at least commonly available for children, and who, as a mother, monetizes the image of a child on the Internet since birth, is completely unbelievable for me and seems to be more searching for publicity or justifying her commercial activity, and not A manifestation of real concern for the safety and good of children - he pointed out, thus criticizing the idea of founding the "Popularizing image of children in public space" by one of the Polish influencers.
This woman shares many details of her life, including private ones. Last year, she published a recording of her delivery on the internet, at which her daughter's first moments of life were captured. Since then, many materials have appeared on the web: photos and video recordings depicting a girl.
A few days ago, informing their observers in the network about the foundation established to life, the influencer wrote: "We face movements that want to eliminate the image of children from the network. We support parents in decisions related to Sharenting."
Magda Korczyńska, author of the blog "How to raise girls", and privately the mother of two daughters, believes that you can create content for parents and share her experiences without supporting the image of your children.
- From the very beginning I built my brand, sharing my knowledge and my experiences, not private photos or other details of family life - Korczyńska said PAP.
He believes that as a parent she is responsible for the safety of his children - for this reason he does not want to place their photos anywhere. She emphasized that she often talks to daughters about network security and knows that they are aware of many threats.
- However, these are still children who do not have sufficient competences and are not fully aware of the risks we take by throwing a photo into social media - she concluded. She added that materials published even in good intentions will never disappear from the Internet.
During only one operation, in the autumn of 2024, officers of the Central Bureau of Cybercrime stopped 75 people and secured over 7.5 thousand. devices, such as telephones, laptops, computers and data carriers, containing over a million files showing sexual abuse of minors. The devices also included photographs of children downloaded from social platforms, previously published on open profiles by their parents and loved ones.
- The law does not prohibit publishing photos of children, this is an individual decision of parents. However, she should follow her aware that made available materials can be used by people who have bad intentions. I dare say that parents would never want their children to get photos of these people - told PAP Podkom. Marcin Zagórski from the CBZC press team.
According to a teen report 3.0, published in 2023 by a scientific and academic computer network - a state research institute, 45.5 percent. Teenagers in Poland declare that their parents or guardians publish their image on the internet, and almost every fourth (23.8 percent) admits that they feel ashamed of this reason, every fifth (19 percent) and feels dissatisfied.
Katarzyna Czarnecka (PAP)
KSC/ Mark/ AMAC/
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