Looking over human observations reveals many photos of unaware minors with geolocation accuracy down to classroom level. The most recent page of 30 human observations reveals 7 observations of people not consenting, and 5 involve teenagers in schools with geolocation. Additionally, some observations…

There isn’t value for iNaturalist in having photos of human faces (with rare exceptions). The problem is that young students assigned to use iNaturalist for class often post photos of their buddies or other people, often with insulting identifications. The question here is, that being true, how do…

An unfortunate trend seen lately is high schools in the US have seen a significant uptick in human observations. I’ve had to flag at least one human observation identified as “Apes”, “Primates”, “Monkeys and Apes”, etc… each day this week. Teachers should also have an Inat account and make their st…

What’s your source for this? I haven’t found anything eBird has put out about hiding photos with humans in them.

“To help manage privacy concerns, we automatically detect photos containing people and apply a Person tag. This tag prevents these images from appearing in most public views.” https://support.ebird.org/en/support/solutions/articles/48001269559-upload-checklist-media#Photos-of-people

You don’t have any guidelines for consent in pictures, but you SHOULD when it’s minors being photographed without consent, in SCHOOLS, WITH LOCATION. Anyone aware how creepy that is or just pretending not to care… you guys should have seperate terms for human observations. Because pictures of unknow…

Should observations with consensual photos of humans be deleted? Yes, this is not facebook, this is a site for citizen science identification of (primarily wild) species. There are other classes of inappropriate content. Yes, but that is not an argument in favor of keeping THIS class of inappropria…

[image] mikenoren: I do not see the point The identifier who flags, and the curator who responds - are the point - multiplied by thousands of obs of humans.

[image] DianaStuder: The identifier who flags, and the curator who responds - are the point - multiplied by thousands of obs of humans. I’ve flagged around 60 observations of humans identified separately from Homo/Homo sapiens. A few of those flags from a week ago are still open, and that is …

[image] yayemaster: around half of human faces come from high/secondary schools worldwide If this is the case – and if the probem is prank IDs of classmates, which are likely to be nearly all from high/secondary schools – then this calls for a focused approach, not a blanket, sitewide interve…

Another problem is that identifiers and curators are already stretched really thin dealing with the new observations being posted on iNaturalist. We would like an approach that can be implemented with minimal attention from us. An approach that can also be applied to all the observations that alre…

Human Observations in Schools

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Human Observations in Schools

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