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Parents Could Be Sued By Their Kids For Posting Pictures of Them On Facebook (theguardian.com)
Next time you share pictures of your children on Facebook, you will want to take their permission before doing that. French authorities have warned parents in France of fines of up to $50,000 and a year in prison for publishing intimate photos of their children on social media without permission. From a Guardian report: It's a development that could give pause for thought for many parents used to sharing details of their children's lives across social media. A 2015 study by internet company Nominet found parents in the UK post nearly 200 photos of their under fives online every year, meaning a child will feature in around 1,000 online photos before their fifth birthday. [...] "In a few years, children could easily take their parents to court for publishing photos of them when they were younger," Eric Delcroix, an expert on internet law and ethics, told Le Figaro. "Children at certain stages do not wish to be photographed or still less for those photos to be made public," he added.It may seem like an absurd law to many, but think about the potential consequences of putting a kid's picture on social media. Among others, we've seen plenty of pictures becoming meme on the web.
Really? One wonders how a child would give permission in any manner that meant anything in a legal sense.
Perhaps the summary isn't presenting this clearly (what? WHAT?) but yes, it does seem pretty absurd.
Then again, the US certainly hasn't been slacking in stepping into the role of parental choice / decision-making.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
Surely the cost should be in Euros? Or is Slashdot's target audience just in North America?
Missouri teen, is suing parents for corruption of a minor, child endangerment, emotional distress, and negligence. It seems the teen recently acquired a Facebook account and went creeping on their parents pages. The material found was termed as 'disturbing', 'borderline pornography' and 'disgusting' by the teen. Most the of the outrage centers around the father's posting of meme's with sexual content and nudes.
I grew up in a world where the internet did not really exist for most people. My first direct contact with it was in 1989. This means I have had the opportunity (although at the time I was not fully aware of that) to influence what pieces of information about me were put online.
When I became a father it seemed only logical to extend this same opportunity to our offspring. And my girlfriend feels the same on this issue, so it is very difficult to find anything on our children online.
My hope is that they will see the value in this and abstain from putting things online that might work against them in their future life. Puberty for them is still some odd years in the future, so I hope there is time enough to get this into their firmware.
Wenn ist das Nunstueck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput.
Seriously, do you even read TFA ?
Under France’s stringent privacy laws, parents could face penalties as severe as a year in prison and a fine of €45,000 (£35,000) if convicted of publicising intimate details of the private lives of others — including their children – without their consent.
Eric Delcroix, an expert on internet law and ethics, said: “In a few years, children could easily take their parents to court for publishing photos of them when they were younger.”
This is rather different than your summary :
French authorities have warned parents in France of fines up to.....
He is a famous lawer arguing that this could happen, which is different than a formal statement from any official.
It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.
"Here son, I know you're only 2 years old but I need you to sign this waiver allowing me to upload your images and also grant me a perpetual, irrevocable, unlimited, worldwide, fully paid/sublicensable license to use, copy, perform, display, distribute, and make derivative works from this content."
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I disagree. You get to find out that the girl who wouldn't talk to you in high school is now fat and ugly.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If my children* tried to pull this off I would blackmail them with the threat to post some of the images I held back.
* Illusion of success with opposite sex created only for humour value.
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Even the girls who were fat and ugly wouldn't talk to me.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
and get the hell off Facebook. Yea, I know.. says the guy on Slashdot. Shut up. At least there are no pictures of my children here.
Presumably: 'Attention Whore'.
This really is no different than the right to be forgotten except that the time scale is shifted. It's like a Catholic indulgence, with the right to be forgiven/forgotten for all sins in the past, present, and future.
Deadend nation trying to remain relevant and failing miserably
I don't want to teach other people's children anything. I've been done with teaching mine for years now. I think that it is first the parents job / responsibility, and second, that of the state.
Providing information to a citizen -- any age -- is one thing. The way I see it, it's difficult to do it wrong, if you do it truthfully. The state, unfortunately, has a very bad habit of being untruthful in service of various shabby (and worse) agendas.
Coercive law is something else entirely. Particularly when it gets into the areas of personal and consensual choice, how it defines "informed", and where parents choices WRT to their still-at-home children are concerned. Most law in this area is, to be kind, wrongheaded. IMHO.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
I doubt that. Charming guy like you.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Leaking information, without express permission, of kids, is a violation of their rights to Privacy under the Canadian Bill of Rights.
It's also illegal in Washington State, where our State Constitution has a specific right of Privacy.
Period.
So stop posting those baby pics and tagging your kids.
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For $50,000 per year for room, board, educational, and security, social services provided.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
This is really a ban on posting photos of children.
France just hasn't thought it thru.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
Place the child in a public space where they have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Take and post photos to your heart's content.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
This is really a ban on posting photos of children.
France just hasn't thought it thru.
Or maybe the French have thought it through and they are simply tired of looking at endless pictures of other people's children ;^)
(disclaimer, I have 2 kids and no facebook account)...
Rather than posting all the kids' embarrassing photos on the internet, the parents should wait until the kids are 13 or 14 and acting like little shits.
Then the parents can threaten to bring the photos out and show them to all the kids' friends when they come around. You've got to think ahead. :-)