Grandmother ordered to delete Facebook photos under GDPR

[TellingBone]

Ruling by a court in the Netherlands.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52758787

I've just seen that. My fb privacy settings are very tight but I'm tempted to delete photos I've posted in the past of my grandchildren - perhaps I'll do that and when I post new ones make a note to delete them in a week's time or something. All this is a minefield really.

Or you could just ask people's permission.

If i was grandma in this situation I would be screen shorting and printing the photos as I would suspect it I'll be awhile before she get anymore!

The issue wasn't facebook settings. The issue was that the parents hadn't given permission for them to be published and the grandparent refused to delete them when asked. It would never have got to court if the two adults hadn't, it would appear, been acting like children!

Moondust one adult acting like a child, the grandparent.

Surely it's easier to ask a child's permission once they are old enough to have a conversation about it. And, until then, ask the child's parents' permission.
Really not hard.

Good. I had to block my MIL because she would steal pictures and post them as if they were hers.

Hmmmm.... it potentially has really very far reaching implications.

Atm ownership of an image lies with the person who took it.

This shifts the ownership to the person in the picture, or in this case, the parents

Which is good for those people for whom the photos are the result of abuse or those who take photos only to find the images circulated beyond the intended recipient.

But bad for press freedom and promotes censorship. Also bad for people like wedding photographers who atm own the rights to the photos they take.

It's courts making rules as opposed to governments. That's an interesting proposition too

Courts are always making laws. Its called judicial statutes or something. In the UK, I heard about a case about whether people were free to do what they wanted in their bedrooms. It was very kinky stuff, but the jury reckoned it was acceptable as it was private.

What I find very worrying about this is that GDPR is now being applied to private individuals, which was not the original purpose of the act. It was about protecting us from companies and governments.

The issue is the forum they are posting it on not that they are a "private individual "

Good. My DCs are in their 20s & for years, haven't liked their pics up on social media. For some reason my mum and sister have a 'so what' attitude to this and used to put up pics anyway. I don't put pics up, I respect their wishes. In the rush for likes and attention over everything, privacy wishes go out of the window it seems. Good decision by the court.