A PDA may be a definition for a “Personal Digital Assistant,” an electronic device which may include calendar functions, note taking functions, a simple word-processor, a calculator, etc. Stand-alone PDA’s have now largely been supplanted by smartphones. PDA may also, however, refer to a “Public Display of Affection,” including, but not limited to, hugging, kissing or even “grinding.” Those types of PDA’s are illegal in such countries as India, Pakistan, South Africa & North Korea. In Utah, a Walgreen’s photo technician discovered photos of a man kissing a naked baby on his face and buttocks. That man was subsequently arrested and deported, his wife was also arrested, and the child removed from the home. Those charges were later dropped after police determined that there had been no sexual abuse; rather the prosecutors, upon consideration of all of the photographs taken at the time, determined the accused was merely a proud father kissing his baby after a bath.
Lesson learned; those cute pictures of your baby having her diaper changed and Dad puking, or pulling off her swimsuit in the backyard blow-up pool may best be kept in one’s personal archives and not posted on Facebook or Flickr. Posting such shots on the web may attract pedophiles, put the parents at risk of prosecution or, even more significantly, may find their way into some undesirable’s photo collection.
Thanks to digital photography such images can be stored and viewed within the confines of one’s own computer and on one’s own video screen. It’s probably best that such “endearing” images be kept within those confines….and don’t forget to archive them, at home only, so they can reappear on the eve of the photographed individual’s betrothal and displayed to his or her intended.
