Posting kids image on the internet is Risky- Experts

In the present time, displaying kids images on social media platform has been identified as one of the ways of realizing the right to freedom of expression.

While this has become one of the trending practices in the digital age, information and communication experts have made it known that internet and other ICT platforms also pose a risk to privacy.

The experts said posing the image of kids at conception is a bad idea, adding that this practice exposes children to danger arising from data usage abuse.


The experts under the umbrella of the African Academic Network On Internet Policy (AANIP)made it known during the association seminar series held at the international Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) recently in Ibadan.

Deliberating on the theme" Data Privacy and Protection in Africa- Developing an evidence driven multi-stakeholder based approach, they collectively lamented that getting people to understand why they should protect their data on social media platforms was the Major challenge they encountered so far.

According to them, Its really difficult for people to understand the problem associated with this, it sound so funny that when you try explaining to people, they fell you want to deprive then of their freedom.The people you seek to protect really do not know why they should be protected".

The experts submitted that it has become imperative to begin to create fundamentals on how data are collected, assed and used