A woman must delete photographs of her grandchildren that she posted on Facebook and Pinterest without their parents’ permission, a court in the Netherlands has ruled.<\/p>\n
It ended up in court after a falling-out between the woman and her daughter.<\/p>\n
The judge ruled the matter was within the scope of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).<\/p>\n
One expert said the ruling reflected the “position that the European Court has taken over many years”.<\/p>\n
The case went to court after the woman refused to delete photographs of her grandchildren which she had posted on social media.<\/p>\n
The mother of the children had asked several times for the pictures to be deleted.<\/p>\n
The GDPR does not apply to the “purely personal” or “household” processing of data.<\/p>\n
However, that exemption did not apply because posting photographs on social media made them available to a wider audience, the ruling said.<\/p>\n
“With Facebook, it cannot be ruled out that placed photos may be distributed and may end up in the hands of third parties,” it said.<\/p>\n
The woman must remove the photos or pay a fine of \u20ac50 (\u00a345) for every day that she fails to comply with the order, up to a maximum fine of \u20ac1,000.<\/p>\n
If she posts more images of the children in the future, she will be fined an extra \u20ac50 a day.<\/p>\n
“I think the ruling will surprise a lot of people who probably don’t think too much before they tweet or post photos,” said Neil Brown, a technology lawyer at Decoded Legal.<\/p>\n
“Irrespective of the legal position, would it be reasonable for the people who’ve posted those photos to think, ‘Well, he or she doesn’t want them out there anymore’?”<\/p>\n
“Actually, the reasonable thing – the human thing to do – is to go and take them down.”<\/p>\n
Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"