ExDH new GF posting photos of children

[Pixie378]

AIBU to ask my ex to ask his GF to removed the photos of our children from Facebook?.
Her profile is public and I do not know her or anyone she knows.
I have not given permission for the photos to be put on her social media and feel that this is disrespectful.
I have asked nicely.

I have FB and have a casual scroll every couple of days. I was scrolling through my newsfeed and there was a picture of my child! It was one my partner's sister posted on her timeline. I thought wt absolute f? There were comments on the photo from people who were total strangers to me.
I felt both very uneasy and VERY angry. This woman is very social media-happy & posts her life on it. I contacted her & told her politely but firmly not to post images of my child again. She got defensive about the commenters etc. but agreed.

Point is OP, I wouldn't hesitate to contact her, ask her to remove the images explaining your reasons simply and firmly.

Pp's having already realised, or just wising up to the fact, that there are horrible weirdos out there are taking a step in the right direction by changing settings to private after the event. Sadly, this does not solve the problem totally... the images are already online and could now be in the deeper recesses of the dark web.
We all need to protect our children from the start of their lives as we do so vigilantly in all other areas of our care for them

You have a right to ASK for it to be taken down, but no right to be angry unless you had told this person not to put the photo on social media.

I suspect anyone sharing photos publicly of young children - especially of children who are not their own - is unfortunately unaware of the risks of doing so.

It would seem reasonable to politely inform her.

Why? Why is it assumed that you can put photos of other people on FB unless the person had said you can't? Surely it should be the other way round!

YANBU

But to be absolutely straight about it, make sure any photos you post are locked down so that only people you know can see them. On FaceAche you can even specify who can see which photos

Why would it be the other way around? It's not practical to go around asking everyone and the law (in England and Wales) allows you to do it.