I’ll get right to the worst part. The settlement authorizes Facebook, with the blessing of the court, to continue doing what California and six other states specifically prohibit by law: using children’s images to make money without asking their parents first. (The other states are Florida, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin.)
With the support of privacy, consumer-rights and children’s-rights nonprofits, I and several other parents urged the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to throw out the settlement this week – because Facebook can’t buy our children, and it can’t sell them either.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/15/facebook-advertising-opt-in-privacy-issues
because Facebook can’t buy our children, and it can’t sell them
It’s not buying them. It’s being given them as part of you or your children agreeing to the terms and conditions of using Facebook. Don’t like it don’t let you kids use Facebook. Oh and don’t you post any photos of them either of course.