Did I do the right thing here?

[Alicia870]

Just wondering what others think of this situation. My baby has been attending a class and they have an Instagram page and uploaded a pic of her and another baby boy the other day. I was fine with t, didn't think much of it. They are basically just sitting in a ball pit with arms reaching out to each other.

I just noticed last night that someone has liked the pic with a username that made it clear it was a man. Out of curiosity I clicked on his page and he had lots of pics of cars and machinery. Straight away I thought why is he liking a pic of 2 babies? From scrolling on I saw he has pics of a girl on his page who looks to me like mid- late teens. Some pics he has hash tagged things like baby girl and ginger hair. Now my baby has red hair so this really freaked me out. One of the videos on his page is him literally licking this girls ear!
It made me feel so sick and worried because the pic of my baby has her name and the location of the class so I sent them a message to say look i don't know who this man is but some content on his page has made me uneasy and could they please block him or delete the picture. Is that the right thing to do?

It's made me really upset to even consider the possibility there could be some dark intention behind it but I just couldn't bear to take any risk. I just hope they don't think I'm being too ott in the baby group!

Omg. Yes you did the right thing. I would do the exact same. There are some vile people out there, you are well within your rights to ask for the pic to be removed! Especially when hes got a weird picture on his page or whatever.. he could potentially be a predator getting off on those sort of things. Personally i think you did the right thing x

The class should not be putting photos in the public domain with the names of children!

Most groups that my DC have attended put stickers over the children's faces when posting on IG so that they cannot be identified at all. I think you should raise this with the class.

Thanks for replying. When I registered with them they did ask if we consent to photos being taken and I said that was ok. But i suppose it is different when they put names and location up also.
I think this is just a reality check for me also of how vulnerable babies and kids are online and how we really don't have any control who sees public posts.
They haven't responded yet I just hope they don't think I'm being a pushy mum but the babies can't stand up for themselves.

I know he could be innocent but it just doesn't seem to add up

They should have also had you consent to what the photos were being used for - you should have had to actively tick a box that listed the use. It's basic GDPR.

I don't like anyone other than me or DH posting pix of my dd. I used to post more pix when she was a baby, not on public accounts but once I realised just how open some restrictions are I stopped. Now I only do it occasionally.
I hope they take it down.

Oh, and you can revoke your consent.

Yeah you definitely did the right thing. There's a difference between consenting to pictures being taken and consenting to them being posted online for anyone to see