A superexposição infantil nas redes sociais: a violação dos direitos de imagem e privacidade no contexto tecnológico

Abstract

The overexposure of children on social media is emerging as a growing phenomenon, where children's lives are widely shared on the internet, potentially violating fundamental rights to privacy and image. In the technological context, parents or guardians, as well as the children and adolescents themselves, end up posting photos, videos, and even information about their daily routines, exposing them to risks such as misuse of their images, identity theft, and cyberbullying. This practice raises questions about the effectiveness of legislation, as well as the role of parents, guardians, and society in protecting children's and adolescents' rights. The discussion covers both the need for parental awareness and the implementation of legal measures to limit unnecessary exposure, ensuring the right to privacy and the right to image. Furthermore, essential ways to reduce this excessive exposure are identified. In this sense, the research problem that emerged is: what measures should be taken in response to children's overexposure on social media in order to safeguard their rights to image and privacy? To carry out the research, some objectives were set, with the general objective being to assess the existence of harm resulting from children's overexposure, and the specific objectives being: to analyze children's overexposure as a result of technological development, to investigate how overexposure on social media leads to violations of children's and adolescents' rights to image and privacy, and finally, to propose what precautions, behaviors, and measures should be taken in response to children's overexposure on social media. Additionally, this is a qualitative research with content analysis, particularly of content that exposes children and adolescents on the internet; it is also a bibliographic and documentary research, and its objectives are exploratory.