World Japan warns child care sites not to put naked kids' pics online as many found on porn sites

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TOKYO -- The Japanese government warned day care centers, kindergartens and other facilities across the country on May 7 not to publish naked children's photos on their websites as many have been reposted on porn sites.

The Children and Families Agency and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology issued the notice in response to some cases in which images of unclothed children have been misused by third parties. They asked facilities to remove such photos immediately if there are any on their websites.

The Mainichi Shimbun had earlier reported that at least 135 facilities such as day care centers and kindergartens had posted images of their children in the nude on their blogs and elsewhere. Of these, photos from 12 facilities were reposted on overseas porn sites among others, while whole web pages containing images from 80 facilities were duplicated and stored on external sites. In addition, pictures from at least six facilities were incorporated into data used for artificial intelligence training.

Japan warns child care sites not to put naked kids' pics online as many found on porn sites - The Mainichi

TOKYO -- The Japanese government warned day care centers, kindergartens and other facilities across the country on May 7 not to publish naked children

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For those wondering, Japan schools have sleep overs and school trips from a very young age and everyone bathes together, boys and girls separate in elementary. So the pictures taken are of everyone having fun in the bath area specifically for parents. There usually isn't any fully nude kids in pictures either, but it's a cultural thing and most places probably don't even consider that some perverts will be trying to look at kids.

Infant/young child nudity or partial nudity isn’t as big of a deal in most Asian cultures as it is in America either. My wife (American) thought it was weird but there’s a bunch of naked pictures of me in my baby photo albums.

Posting the pictures on a publicly available website is definitely an oversight though.