NO TAGS without permission
NO TAGS without permission
A CAMPAIGN TO AVOID BEING TAGGED WITHOUT PERMISSION ON SOCIAL NETWORKS – JOIN US!
Categories: News, NOTAGSwithoutPermission | Comments Off on Facebook’s tagging feature was used to humiliate Amanda Todd

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, […]

Categories: NOTAGSwithoutPermission | Comments Off on BEING TAGGED ON SOCIAL NETWORKS: NOT WITHOUT MY PERMISSION

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 […]

Categories: NOTAGSwithoutPermission | Comments Off on Tags are the source and/or consequence of a poor digital coexistence

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

Categories: NOTAGSwithoutPermission | Comments Off on Identity-tagged photos should be subject to the same protections as social security numbers

The International Biometrics and Identification Association (IBIA), a trade association promoting the appropriate use of identity and security technology, is raising a red flag on an impending “perfect storm.” caused by the combination of photo tagging and tag suggestion through facial recognition technology. The IBIA warns that this perfect storm may destroy the barrier separating our online […]