Amanda Todd, the 15-year-old Canadian girl found dead last week, was a victim -among other abuses and humiliations- of harmful and cruel tagging in the social network Facebook. She told the story herself in a heartbreaking video on YouTube five weeks ago detailing her battle with online harassment and bullies. Unable to bear the harassment, […]
Your photo associated to your name and profile in someone else’s photo album and available to all his friends… and you cannot decide beforehand whether they can tag you or not. This is something that could happen and it does happen everyday in social networks such as Facebook, as it does not request permission to […]
Have you ever thought about it? Even if your configuration on a social network seems that is set to protect your privacy, this feeling could be really misleading. This new video from the #NOTAGSwithoutpermission campaign shows with a clear and simple example what could happen. Any of your friends on the social network can […]
Tagging without permission in social networks not only affects our privacy, it can also be a weapon that others use to cyberbully us. As there is no need to require permission to show tags on photos, we don’t have any way to defend against its effects: we are exposed to abuses coming from anyone tagging […]
During his speech at the First International Digital World Encounter (ESSE), Jorge Flores, director of FriendlyScreens, launched officially the NoTagsWithoutPermission campaign in three languages (Spanish, English and Portuguese). This campaign looks for public support to convince those who have a saying on social networks to change the way users can be tagged by others. The goal is that social networks modify how tags are […]
Facebook has just filed a fourth amendment to its S-1 to IPO that notes that it now has 500 million mobile users, 901 million monthly active users, and that it paid 23 million shares at $30.89 a share plus $300 million cash for Instagram for a total of $1,010,470,000. Facebook also made $1.058 billion in revenue in […]
As part of the #NOTAGSwithoutpermission campaign started by FriendlyScreens, we released a video showing a common case that can occur in Social Networks when users don’t have the ability to approve or reject a photo tagged with their own name before it’s published and disseminated by the Social Network. This video helps on our demand to make […]
This animation is created to raise awareness about the risks of loss of privacy due to the carelessness of friends on the Internet, i.e loss of privacy as a consequence of what others do with your image or personal information. This is a problem that is growing in social networks on the Internet. “What do other people know about you does not only depend on you.”
It is becoming increasingly common and simple to upload images on the Internet. In the context of social networks there is also the possibility of tagging, i.e linking people to those images. Have we stopped to consider what implications this feature can have? Read the whole article in Spanish or translated thanks to Google Translate
Starting today, we made available a page on this site where we will publish examples of real situations that people have told us about photos being tagged without permission on social networks. Maybe you can tell us about your case or about someone you know?
Max Schrems, a law student at the University of Vienna, has become by its own merits the protagonist of a battle that has confronted Facebook with European laws on data protection, which are stricter than their U.S. counterparts. To avoid paying taxes on profits earned outside the United States, the social networking giant established its […]
