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One day Li’s father in Shanghai unexpectedly received a blackmail letter.
ransomware amount is 1.7 million,
full text 2,000 words, listing the information of two children in detail:
"How old are you, which kindergarten to attend, and the summer camp you are about to participate in",
The writer knows a lot about the children,
I hope Dad Li can spend money to eliminate disasters.
After investigation, the suspect comes from Li’s circle of friends.
The reason is that he “has sent luxury cars, luxury houses and children.
The overall atmosphere makes people feel that they have financial strength and are willing to spend money for their children.”
According to the "Data Era 2025" released by the International Data Information IDC,
On average, every person connected to the Internet has 1,426 data interactions every day.
0s and 1990s have become "digital immigrants",
, and 2000s and even 10s have lived online since they were born,
is called "digital natives".
What’s scary is that
Most people do not realize the hidden dangers that come with these data.
A online interviewed Harvard Law professor Leah Plunkett,
She believes that the storm of "social media uses data to kill old people" is far from here:
"Now a small number of people will be blackmailed and kidnapped because of this,
In the future, every child's data may be used by technology companies,
Whether it is going to school, choosing a spouse, looking for a job,
They will fall into the trap brought by data leakage."
Written by Chen Weiqin Editor Chen Ziwen
"What is the reason for showing off your baby?"
"Because I like children, I like this moment."
Suzhou Mother of Baozi thinks that the 8-year-old bun is the most beautiful little girl in the class. Two weeks ago, she placed an order for her daughter in a Taobao store and sent the photos she took casually to the store owner as a buyer show.
"When I logged into this store again, I found that they used my daughter's photo as promotional photos. I sent more than 50 messages to the store asking them to remove the photos, and he did not reply to me."
The nightmare that followed was: because the store's sales were quite good, all Taobao stores selling similar styles changed the promotional photos to buns in the next few days.
The message received by Anna's mother in Shenzhen was even more terrifying: "I am going to buy a rope to tie your daughter... I'll torture your daughter to death slowly. What can you do with me?"
Because Anna was a children's clothing model before she was 8 years old and had accumulated a lot of clothes. Anna's mother sold more than 400 second-hand clothes on Xianyu, and naturally put photos of her daughter wearing them. Unexpectedly, she attracted countless perverted messages over the past few years.
Even if she blocked all accounts and stopped posting photos of her daughter, the messages did not decrease at all. Some people even switched multiple accounts to leave her a message, "You Old Witch can't stop me." At the end of the message, this account sent a picture of a man kissing his daughter with his lips... She was so scared that her scalp was numb, but she didn't know how to truly eliminate hidden dangers.
Circle Mother and daughter
In China, online sharing children have gone through three forms and four stages:
- 007 to 2009, mainly news official websites, campus networks and post bars, showing children's award information and campus activities in text form;
- 010 to 2 In 2013, Renren.com and QQ space were popular, students uploaded photos online, and online campus socialization became fashionable;
- Since 2014, WeChat and Weibo have become popular, and parents have uploaded cute photos of their children, and the trend of showing off their children has begun to show scale; around
- 019, short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou have become popular, which further promoted the accumulation of family short videos online.
In a survey on children's privacy, 46% of parents said they "have never thought about it" when posting content related to their children, and 4% of parents said they "have never thought about it at all."Baozi mother said: "Most of the photos we left when we were young are film. If we were born before 1990, there was almost no information on the Internet. The dependence of us parents on electronic devices and APPs was sudden."
and dozens of parents who had an in-depth conversation talked about a phenomenon: whether it is a social software or a maternal and childcare app, when we log in for the first time, there is often a "agree" button on the interface, which means that users only have two options: "agree" and "abandon use". No one knows what this will bring in the moment of pressing "Agree".
Circle Mom and daughter
Many dangers come from the "most familiar strangers" accumulated on social software.quanquan mother in Changsha is recently pregnant with her second child and works part-time as a micro-businessman, selling her children's clothes, toys, and diapers. quanquan is often her little model. "Many customers trust me because I am a mother and my children also use this product, and the customers in the group also introduce each other."
One day, she suddenly looked at it. When it comes to the news of "Children's model photo packing Taobao html for 420 yuan sale", "The cold sweat suddenly came down, and more than 1,000 people were added to WeChat. Will anyone squatting on my circle of friends to download and save the photos in circle?"
criminals can also add Photoshop to modify the original pictures and package them on illegal pornographic websites. In Europe and the United States, once the child’s information is traceable, strangers can even register a new credit card online and swipe the child’s credit history in advance.
"Before the danger comes, no one knows it will come."
" It was the peak when I was born, and it was exposed every day. Now I am 2 and a half years old and slowly stabilized, about twice a week." Koala's mother from Suzhou believes that compared to the "baby-showing maniac" in her circle of friends, she is still rationally sharing.
According to the "China Family Showing Baby Report" released by a parent-child platform in 2016, 82 out of every 100 mothers show their children on various social software, and the sharing content will change with the child's age. When the age of 0-2, parents share the most frequently are drinking milk, sleeping and wetting the bed; when the age of 2-4, they play, running, and outdoor activities; when the age of 4-6, parents will post many questions raised by children.
Every parent interviewed said: Important days like birth, birthday, and travel are a must-see.
Koala mother and son
Some sharing is to meet the needs of the elderly. At Koala's mother's house, grandparents can feel at ease when they see their children's growth in the video every day. "I will be somersaulting today, and I will be chanting 'goose' tomorrow. If I don't post for a day, they will also 'urge for updates'."also has the requirements of teachers, such as kindergarten check-in activities that often appear in the circle of friends.Mother Quanquan said, "The teacher requires active participation, but if a stranger opens the link, the name of the kindergarten, the name of the child, and the activities he has participated in recently are clear at a glance." Mother Bao talked about self-satisfaction, "In the eyes of parents, every moment of changes in the child is charming. Especially before the child goes to school and does not have much of his own thoughts, we will want to record every moment."
How does technological convenience violate children's privacy? Harvard Law professor Leah Plunkett conducted five years of research on this and published "Handling Contemplation" (Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online).
The reason why Plunkett inspired her to write a book comes from her own experience. As a lawyer and law professor, she once took her child to shoot a public service advertisement, but later found that her child's photos were stolen on other irrelevant advertisements and offline prints.
Harvard Law Professor Leah Plunkett
In the United States, "Over-sharenting" (over-showing babies) has become a phenomenon: there are a large number of parenting bloggers in the YouTube channel, and Facebook is also considered by teenagers to "because they are the social base for parents."When everyone is enjoying nearly free social software, they do not know that they have actually "payed" with their personal data.
"More than 95% of users do not agree to the platform's disposal of their personal account data. However, when they checked on 'I agree', they have handed over the data's right to use it."
American legal expert Edina (formerly English name) pointed out: If your settings on social software are publicly visible, this partially recognizes that your data is a public resource.
"Many people think of kidnapping, extortion, child pornography in the news, and think that these are niche events. But I think that the data posted now will affect the growth, education, employment and even date of every child in the future."
When technology companies master the data of the next generation, will they recommend related products based on their growth stage? At least the current signs have begun to appear:"Mobile Monitoring" is an open secret. Since Baozi's mother got pregnant, she has received no interruptions in her mother-child and education-related pushes. "At first, I thought the information I filled in was leaking. Later, once, my husband and I verbally mentioned a niche child suitcase, and the next day, she actually received the push."
Education has been very popular in recent years, and predicting children's education has become the next goal. As the child grows up, koala mothers will receive recommendation advertisements from early education institutions such as Ma and Tiger in advance. "When the child is 1 year old, it recommends products about 1 and a half years old to you, as if it predicts your trajectory." Professor
Plunkett has this assumption: When some technology companies start collecting all data on a person's growth, his appearance, transcripts, mistakes he has made, achievements he has obtained... can he rate everyone in the future?
"Black Mirror" tells the story of future humans dating blind dates based on data analysis and changing dates
There is an episode in "Black Mirror" about AI blind date software to be used in the future. Under this system, the male protagonist Frank fell in love after dating the female protagonist Amy. However, the system requires them to pair with other "system-compliant" objects because data is more important than feeling.
American actress Gwyneth Paltrow (Gwyneth Paltrow) once shared a photo of her and her daughter on Instagram, and was liked by 150,000 netizens. Later, her daughter Alber asked for a warning to "delete the post". She left a message: "Mom, we have discussed it before, and you can't post any photos of me without my permission."This kind of child refuses to be uploaded not only to celebrities' children. Tango mother from Shanghai said that once she wanted to take a photo of her daughter Qingqing, and Qingqing subconsciously covered her face with the plastic board in her hand.
We interviewed two children studying in Shanghai. They did not agree with the frequency of adults saying "showing their babies in moderation, once a week" and believed that parents show off their babies. Almost "all the time", Qingqing believes that only 1% of the photos taken by her mother were allowed by her.
Qingqing took the initiative to send her "beautiful photos" that she recognized
Qingqing said: "Even if I don't have a mobile phone, I can know from my grandmother's mobile phone that my mother has posted a large number of photos of me, and some of them are still 'ugly photos'. "
The child is very resistant to "ugly photos" because it "destroys the face". Xiaoshuai, a third-grade student, once held a "parents' criticism meeting for showing their children" in school. When classmates communicated with each other, they found that what parents liked to take most was wrestling. "If I fell, my mother would even ask me to lie down and not move first. "
Many parents think that their children are "very cute when they are funny", but their children's self-cognition develops faster than they imagined. Xiaoshuai told a story of putting their hearts in his heart: "Once my mother was posted by a friend in a fat photo on her circle of friends. She was depressed for a long time, so why can't she understand my mood? "
Despite this, Xiaoshuai and Qingqing's relationship with their parents is generally good. Qingqing believes that her mother is a manifestation of love when shooting herself, "But if I can delete my ugly photo and discuss it with me in the future and post it, I think it will be better. ”
has been responsible for many children-related legal cases. Plunkett proposed the "three no" principle, which can greatly protect children's privacy:
- Don't post the child's personal information, including the name (especially the whole thing). name), date of birth, home address, school;
- Don’t post nude photos of children and key parts of their bodies, even if the children are just playing by the beach;
- Don’t share children’s feces, which is very likely to cause both children and their families to “socially die”.
“Of course, what I advocate most is the supervision of technology companies. Social software can completely set up a function called "self-forgotten", allowing users to choose how long to completely delete this image from the database. "
We are all enjoying the convenience of technology, but it is not perfect. As the first parents in the digital age, are you willing to give yourself 15 seconds of thinking before sharing your children?
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