The Conversation: Is your child’s photo on their school’s Facebook page? What does this mean for their privacy?

Children’s online safety is a growing concern among parents — we must look closely into how schools use their students’ images. OPINION If you search most primary or high school websites, you will probably find images of happy, smiling children. Students’ images are also used publicly for school newsletters, social media accounts and other school publications such as annual reports.

Parents could reasonably expect schools and education departments have conducted thorough checks and evaluations to do this. To some degree this is true, but a recent AI scare where children’s images were used in a massive training data set included some photos from school websites..