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A court in the Netherlands ruled this month that a grandmother must remove pictures of her grandchildren from her social media accounts after her daughter filed a privacy complaint.
The grandmother, according to a Gelderland District Court summary, has not been in contact with her daughter for more than a year due to a family argument.
Her daughter has three minor children who appear in pictures the grandmother posted to social media accounts on Facebook and Pinterest. In February, the daughter wrote to her mother, noting that her requests made via the police to remove the photos of her children from social media have been ignored and giving her mother until March 5 to comply or face legal action.
After the grandmother failed to take the photos down, the mother took her complaint to court.
The Dutch implementation of Europe's General Data Protection Act requires that anyone posting photos of minors obtain consent from their legal guardians.
When the court took up the matter in April, the grandmother had removed photos, except for one from Facebook. She wanted that one picture, of the grandson she had cared for from April 2012 through April 2019 while the boy and his father, separated from the mother, lived with her.
The father in the instance of the Facebook image also did not consent to the publication of the image.
[...] Accordingly, the judge gave the grandmother ten days to remove the picture. If it isn't not removed by then, a fine of €50.00 (£45, $55) will be imposed each day the images remain in place, up to a maximum of €1,000 (£900, $1,095).
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2020, @10:28PM (9 children)
Are you enjoying COVID-19, Boomers? I hope you are, because your political response to the pandemic has completely destroyed the economy. Did we really need a Great Recession in 2008 caused by you, and a Great Lockdown in 2020 caused by you? Are you proud of yourselves for creating an economic depression even worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s? Are you proud of yourselves, Boomers? Your legacy will be economic ruin for all. You don't care as long as you Boomers continue to receive your pensions. You Boomers don't have jobs. You Boomers don't create jobs. You Boomers don't do anything for anyone ever. You Boomers are utterly worthless parasites. You don't care about anybody except yourselves. Everybody except you is forced at gunpoint to wear a facemask while you Boomers sit in your giant mansions laughing and waiting to die when you will be buried with your fortunes so nobody will ever touch your precious money.
Boomers did COVID-19.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2020, @10:51PM (2 children)
Neither do the Millennials.
Besides, one doesn't need a job to live.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2020, @11:07PM (1 child)
》Besides, one doesn't need a job to live.
That's right, you can just live off your savings... except millennials have no savings since they spent all their money on tattoos.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2020, @11:19PM
That's right, nobody remembers Generation X, the other lost generation. Everyone is either a Millennial loser or a Boomer winner in the Boomer world view.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by khallow on Sunday May 24 2020, @10:54PM (2 children)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @12:06AM (1 child)
OK, khallow!
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @12:18AM
That's really low.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @12:21AM
You're out of the Will.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @12:26AM
Whiney Incel.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:50AM
I think they feel they do. My boomer parents tell me "Oh, nothing much has changed for me the past few months".
That's untrue of course; their grandchildren's parents are CNN-believing NPCs, so they haven't seen the grandchildren for months. And they used to eat out a lot. They're just willing to accept more than I am.