Pictures without consent

[sosoverytired]

Need to know where I stand legally please.
Someone has taken photos of my children. In my home. And posted them on a public highly visible social media sight with no privacy settings. They were told. Verbally. Not to share or publish them anywhere.

Is this against the law and if so can someone point me to the act or piece of legislation covering it please?

Also they have other private accounts. Is there anyway to force them to prove they are not there or get a court to check?

And finally can I press charges if there are?

I have also posted in legal. Posting here for traffic.

Sorry I cross posted!

Good luck @sosoverytired

How frustrating when you'd said no already. They are risking a ban on IG of posting semi nude children without parental permission. That'll affect their influencer status!

Thanks all. The influencer? Thing I find very confusing. Seems to involve lots of strange videos on very strange things. Does that actually make money or anything?

Influencer how?
With dark and hateful posts??
Andthen photos of your kids in there

Time to freak out op
Report report report

Also:what a shit family member to do this
That's not family you need in your life

Wow. Totally out of order- report report report.

I'm quite upset for you @sosoverytired and glad that you have felt supported by MNers.
It is absolutely a breach of trust when you already said no.

You have my sympathy. It's a major violation and a horrible thing to have no control over. I hope Instagram sees sense.

Thank you. Was 15 year old niece. Parents can't see the problem or danger so it looks like no contact once images removed.

15 year olds probably can’t see past desperation to get ‘likes’. It’s a shame she’s even on instagram at that age tbh. But her parents should know better. Don’t blame you for being upset.

Honestly we are also concerned for her safety as lots of private info being shared so she could easily be identified. You just hear all these horror stories and so we are trying to reason with them but falling in deaf ears.

You said about having to look for other accounts for the photos - I don't know how to do it but apparently you can do a search for a specific image, like googling a phrase but with a photo - so if you have (or can save from the instagram) a copy of the photo in question you could do that to save yourself some time.

Thank you. Will see if I can figure out how to do that. Been loosing sleep tbh as it really shook me up not knowing who has seen them or shared them or worse.

@sosoverytired

So it's 'sorted' now.

If this 'family' of yours is so awful and unreasonable, then why the feck do you let them in you house, and let them take pics of your 'half-dressed' children?

Being half-dressed in 90 Fahrenheit temps in July ain't that weird mate.

If there is already tension between you, I am SURE taking legal action will help smooth things over. I can't believe you even thought about that!!!

Christ on a scooter!

isnt there something about being under 13 & not getting permission?

www.surreycc.gov.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/11312/SSCB-Guidance-using-images-of-children.pdf
this mentions CEOP

@bingbongnoise
I'm not sure it is "all sorted now" nor that OP said that. She said 15 yo niece's parents (niece posted photos) weren't that mindful either.

Either way, I'm not sure how you think your comment is that helpful. OP is worried. It's her young children. By far majority of people are very careful about posting half dressed pictures of young children and their privacy settings for photos of children

I looked into this when some idiot was taking and posting pictures of our horses publicly. If it's in public, you stand little chance unless the land owner refuses permission, so within your own home, you should be able to refuse permission.

However, given it's your niece and her parents clearly aren't co-operating, you could phone the non emergency police number for advice and tell her parents you have done so. This may help, unless they're real idiots. Obviously never let her take pictures again.

Thanks all. Have reported images I know about so will see what happens. We are obviously not allowing them back and will see if Instagram remove them. We have obv blocked them from our Facebook and triple checked our privacy settings. Already as restricted as possible.

Thanks for the help and understanding and links to reporting.

Must sleep now. Young kids. But will update about Instagram report.

My spiteful Ex and his witch of his new gf did this. She posted a photo of my child on her Instagram. She refused to remove it. Its still their now even thou they split up, Instagram have done nothing about it despite me asking.

Sorry pressed post before i finished typing. Another issue i have is if you type Instagram handle into Google, all their images are there for literally anyone to see, or whichever # was used as well. My son is all over Google images because of her, and when we went to Court to get The Non Mol order, this evidence was used as a safeguarding issue. She was also charged for misuse under the Communications act.

@WomanLikeMeLM you can get Google to remove the images under the right to be forgotten.

Go all GDPR on them

@DdraigGoch oh thank you

I think, legally speaking, you can’t stop people publishing photographs online. You can stop them taking photographs on your property, but in this case it doesn’t sound like you did? Facebook/Instagram can put in place whatever policies they like, which probably means they will remove them if you object to the publication of images of your children. But that doesn’t make it illegal.

what are you worried will happen to them ?