4) What rights and responsibilities do we have as parents to protect the digital identities of our children?
When posting pictures of your children online, you are making a decision for them. The parent is choosing for the child that their image will be on the internet forever basically. Since parents are the guardians and decision makers for their children (before age 18) is that their right? I suppose it is. However, when making that decision, parents need to take on the responsibility that goes along with it. Once a picture is posted online, they are essentially giving up the right to control what happens to that picture.
Even if a parent chooses to stay completely offline or live a more private life, they have very limited control of what other people are doing. For example, if a child attends a birthday party and someone at the party is taking pictures then posts them on Flickr for all attendees to see, there will be pictures of that child online. Parents can attempt to police who is posting pictures of their children online, but that can be a hard battle to fight.
I don't think fighting it is the answer, but to make sure that the pictures are being posting in a responsible manner by other parties.
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