A grandmother from the Netherlands was recently ordered to delete her grandchildren’s photos from Facebook and Pinterest, after her own daughter sued her for posting the pictures without her legal consent.
According to the European Union’s GDPR directive photos of children up to the age of 16 can only be posted online with the consent of their parents, and one Dutch mother didn’t stop shy of taking her own mother to court for refusing to remove photos of her grandchildren from her social media profiles.
Apparently, the grandmother sued after repeatedly refusing to delete pictures of her three grandchildren, aged 14, 6 and 5. She and her daughter had reportedly stopped talking a year ago because of the issue. The children’s mother motivated her decision to take her own parent to court by saying that she did not want her children’s photos exhibited on the internet, and that the public photos “seriously violated their privacy.”
Their grandmother didn’t appear to understand this, but the judge definitely did, ruling in favor of the children’s parent and ordering the defendant to either remove all the photos of her grandchildren within 10 days or face a fine of 50 euros per day for every day the photos were accessible on her Facebook and Pinterest pages, up to a total of 1,000 euros.
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