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Screen scraping photos of my kids from a kindergarten website. Recognizing good photos that feature my kids and deleting everything else is manual, though. Ale
by dancek 8y ago
Screen scraping photos of my kids from a kindergarten website. Recognizing good photos that feature my kids and deleting everything else is manual, though.
Alerts to my phone if the fridge or freezer temperature exceeds a limit or the humidity under my dishwasher starts rising.
Granted, neither are fully automatic and require manual intervention.
- lostlogin 8y agoI wouldn’t be that pleased with a childcare facility taking photos of my kid then putting them on the internet. I suspect I’m in a small minority though.
- yurishimo 8y agoIt could also be scraped behind a login. Plenty of headless web browsers now that can be scripted to login and then start scraping.
- dancek 8y agoIt's behind a login and they've asked for parents' consent for each child separately. Everyone with access has agreed not to share any of the photos. I actually haven't shared my scraper script just because I think someone would then share the pictures (perhaps accidentally). EDIT: I'll just add that there are no public photos of my kids and I ask anyone who takes photos not to share them outside family. So I do agree with your point.
- lostlogin 8y agoThat’s less alarming than I’d interpreted, and I didn’t mention in the first post - your script is a good idea.
- DenisM 8y agoWhy?
- dancek 8y agoWhy do I want to keep kindergarten photos of my kids, or why don't I want to manually save them one by one from the website? Why do you ask?
- DenisM 8y agoThe question was directed at lostlogin, not you. I’m interested to know why people object to have their kids pictures on the sites of the daycare providers.
- wattengard 8y agoKids don't need to be exposed on the internet until they are able to decide themselves if they are okay with it. When that is is up to the parent. I always ask my 8-year old even before I share photos with her grandparents.
- EADGBE 8y ago"I don't know why you're so upset, sweetie. You said it was okay when you were 8."
- lostlogin 8y agoIt’s more that I don’t know the reason it’s being taken. We have had photos taken by tourists that have sidled up and taken photos and had companies take photos then ask for permission for use in promotion. We felt pressure to accept these after the event, though didn’t. And then there is privacy.
- BrandoElFollito 8y agoDid you build the IoT devices yourself or used an off the shelf solution?
- dancek 8y agoI'm using a ready-made solution from http://wirelesstag.net http://wirelesstag.net . While I think I could build suitable hardware myself, I wouldn't have the skills to make them run on a battery for two years.