Is anyone worried about some web scraper going through a site like Oscraps to train AI?

[hoodsmom]

I just read a disturbing article that was several months old. It said that some big outfit discovered a security flaw in Flickr and was able to scrape images including those set to private for the purposes of training AI for facial recognition. Flickr has since patched the vulnerability. I am pretty cautious about what I put in the gallery but some of my journaling has included family members' first names + vacation locations on the same page. I can't imagine that a web scraping outfit would go after Oscraps when there are much better targets such as Facebook and Instagram where people post stuff not set to private pretty willy-nilly, but now I have a grandkid and understandably his parents want to lock down images of him. I would hate to think that I have to blur the faces of live people in my LO's before posting in the gallery (that seems like unnecessary paranoia on my part and it also takes the joy out of posting). But I did find the article disturbing.

If you're interested in data privacy where children are concerned you can search for "Leah Plunkett Sharenthood" at NPR.