Should these parents be posting pics on Instagram?

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My DS plays football in an under 11s team, one of his team mates has a parent run Instagram account with about 2k followers, which they use to promote their son’s footballing activity… they post footage and team photos from every match.

just wondering really, I’m guessing the parents can do this without parental permission of the other players? It’s a lot of content generated that often includes my DS & the other players.

I would expect them to ask permission. I run a sporting activity that includes children. It Is rare that any child is posted on the club SM and when they are express permission has been obtained.

The club has asked permission (and sometimes re shares this accounts posts). But the parents of this boy haven’t.

I knew someone who had an instagram account to promote his son and his football skills. He never used images of others without the permission of the parents.
He may think that as parents have given the club permission, it’s ok, but if that were me (both as a parent and an ex-welfare officer for a club) I wouldn’t be comfortable with it. Ideally he would have spoken to the parents themselves about putting their children on his instagram account, especially when the sole purpose of the account is to promote his son’s talents (as opposed to sharing with friends/ family).

A football match is a public event, held in a public place, which anyone can watch if they wish to do so.

You could argue that the parent could ask all the other parents as a matter of courtesy, and that he definitely shouldn't be tagging other people's children by name, but there is nothing legally wrong with posting pictures, and if other parents objected, nothing legally they could do to stop it.

If it's a proper, affiliated league, then the club and FA are probably posting results and photos on social media every week anyway. It's a public activity, as said above. They're not doing anything wrong.

I would ask if my son's face could be obscured or omitted. They may not have thought.

If you don’t want your son on their account which is fair they should have asked, then you need to say you don't want your sons imagine shared.

Hmm, I voted YANBU as parental permission is a thing and too many people don't give a shit about it/are thoughtless and take photos anyway. 😡
This situation though? If they've given consent to be featured in photos, they've given consent.
They can't really control what happens with public photos once they're out there.
I don't think the sharer parents are doing anything wrong then.

YANBU but it seems inevitable. You could ask them (in person and on email) to cover your son’s face etc.

There are so many parents who push their sons’ football activity. There sure are going to be thousands of boys disappointed over the years, when they don’t make it to be a professional football player. Hope these parents are also ensuring their sons have other avenues to view success in life. See it all the time.