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Andy England: Darfield High School Principal on schools struggling to keep of track students with image restrictions · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Research released to ZB shows two-thirds of schools surveyed have
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  Speaker 1: accidentally published an image of a child online despite their
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  Speaker 1: parents saying don't. Andrew England, Darfield High School principal with
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  Speaker 1: me this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Andy.
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  Speaker 3: Well done, Ryan. That was very formal, Andrew.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry. Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're good.
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  Speaker 1: Andy, speaking of formal, don't parents sign like a formal
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  Speaker 1: declaration and say, tick a box that says, no, don't
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  Speaker 1: post a photo of my kid?
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  Speaker 3: They do at the time of enrolment, absolutely. But as
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  Speaker 3: a school, you're kind of between a rock and a
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  Speaker 3: hard place. And it is true, and I know that
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  Speaker 3: we've also done that, made that same mistake and then
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  Speaker 3: fixed it. But you, as a school of, say, 800 students,
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  Speaker 3: you might have a handful of students who don't want
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  Speaker 3: their pictures, or whose parents don't want their pictures to
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  Speaker 3: be online. You get busy during the day, you're taking
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  Speaker 3: those pictures of all this great stuff. You've got lots
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  Speaker 3: of other parents who love seeing their kids doing great
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  Speaker 3: school things. And then you... throw it on social media
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  Speaker 3: so everybody can enjoy it, and you realize you've made
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  Speaker 3: a mistake.
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  Speaker 2: So when you say social media, do you mean public pages?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the most common thing that schools use is public pages.
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  Speaker 3: It's Facebook, Instagram, et cetera. And it is a real risk.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, as I say, I can't actually remember when
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  Speaker 3: we did it as a mistake, but I do remember
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  Speaker 3: we had to retrieve it one time. If you think
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  Speaker 3: about all the different media channels that schools use nowadays,
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  Speaker 3: And it's largely, I'll say, it's for a good reason
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  Speaker 3: because people want to share all the cool things that's happening.
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  Speaker 3: And I guess it affects my marketing as well. There's
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  Speaker 3: all sorts of reasons for it. But you've got the
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  Speaker 3: commercial products, the meta range, your school website, your newsletters,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. And then often within the school, you've got
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  Speaker 3: several people organizing all of your different media for you.
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  Speaker 3: So you've got to try and coordinate that knowledge across
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  Speaker 3: all of them.
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  Speaker 2: So why not just, I mean, if the risk is
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  Speaker 2: that you put a photo up that a parent didn't
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  Speaker 2: want to be there, why not just keep it to
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  Speaker 2: a newsletter?
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. And I think what this article is saying that
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  Speaker 3: you've got there is that the landscape has changed. The
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  Speaker 3: risks have changed in the last few years. The ability
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  Speaker 3: for AI to go out and harvest and mass images
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  Speaker 3: and names and all that kind of stuff from schools
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  Speaker 3: didn't exist five or ten years ago. and the awareness
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  Speaker 3: of it and so on. So I think most of
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  Speaker 3: us at schools are looking at how far do we
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  Speaker 3: pull back. There's technology available now where you can actually just,
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  Speaker 3: for families who want to, you can scan the faces
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  Speaker 3: of their children and then you can now blur them
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  Speaker 3: out automatically. So you can't really make those same mistakes.
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  Speaker 3: There are a range of things. Who wants to see
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  Speaker 3: blurred out faces in their school website? So we've got
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  Speaker 3: a bit of our hands to try and manage all this.
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  Speaker 2: Andy England, Darfield High School Principal. For more from Early
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