Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Professor Barry O'Sullivan:

-----stating he or she is at the corner or two doors down and watching. There are people out there who do this stuff for the hell of it. Why does a child need to share geolocation on a photograph? People might want to have their holiday albums popping up on a map to remember where they were. How many times have people picked up their phones to see an app asking to access photographs. People innocuously agree because they want to post a photograph, but what they have actually done is given the social media company access to all of the geotagged information on the smartphone so they know where they have been and when they were there because it is all timed. People allow access to their phones and photographs because they want to post photographs of their new dog, but they actually release an enormous amount of information and parents do not appreciate this.