Broadcasters warned against using children's photographs from social media sites

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/sep/09/broadcasters-warned-against-using-childrens-photographs-from-social-media-sites

This article talks about the privacy of children online and how broadcasters would be seen as invading privacy. In this case, big institutions such as ABC have been targeted as they have used photos from social media. This would be because the ACMA have recently updated their guidelines so that it would affect social media such as Facebook. This has made it so that broadcasters aren't just freely taking publically available photos of young children without the consent of the parents.   

• "the first time the guidelines have been updated since 2011 and several high-profile cases have been included as case studies"
• "ABC News broadcast images of the surrogate children of a man, who was charged and acquitted of 20 child sex offences"

In my opinion, while I do think that it is a bad idea to simply take photos of children from social media without consent, the lack of imagery in news stories may not make it more visually interesting for the viewer to watch the news on live TV. So while this does respect the privacy of the parents and the children, it may also sacrifice for a news story that may not have as much of an impact on to them as audiences wouldn't normally want to just listen to the presenter who would report on the news as they would also expect some relevant imagery or footage.