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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: 2, Insightful) by Arik on Monday May 25 2020, @12:35AM (4 children)
That's a reasonable backport, though I doubt it's historically accurate.
"The alternative is the utterly fucked up world we live in right now where people like me spend an entire lifetime coding from age 5 onward and earn advanced degrees in computer science and still never ever find a coding job."
Your own circumstances may be to some degree tragic, but can in no way serve as shorthand for how truly fucked up this world is for many others.
Why do you expect a 'coding job?'
"And I continue coding even though I will never earn a cent from it because the jobs just don't exist."
See? There don't need to be any coding jobs for you to code. And ideally one should code for the good of humanity, not to make a quick buck by being a tool anyway.
"Make no fucking mistake: I am a fucking prole."
You and I both, tovarisch.
"In a world of thought police I would still be trolling the motherfucking shit out of you because nothing I do matters no matter what I do."
So you're Emo?
"Remember: animals and proles are free. Or do you remember? Did you ever even read Nineteen Eighty Four?"
Nineteen Eighty-Four I first read in 1982 or thereabouts, and I've read it dozens of times at least.
Animal Farm was in some ways better and I probably didn't read that until about 1984, but again I've read it cover to cover several times.
George Orwell wrote many other things that were worth the read as well as these; on his experiences in Catalonia and Burma for example.
I've always thought of him as a bit of a UK version of Mark Twain. An author well worth reading.
But dystopian literature goes far beyond Orwell.
Remember Wells and his Morlocks? How about Kafka's Trial? Zamyatin's We became Rand's We the Living became Anthem. Huxley's Brave New World? Heinlein's If this goes on?
Anthony Burgess should be on the list too. Have you read 1985?
Don't play this game with me, it won't go well for you.
"In Nineteen Eighty Four the human secret police force was a government jobs program and it worked very well to keep people busy spying on each other. In the real world the billionaires are doing jack shit fucking nothing to create jobs and instead are getting themselves elected so they can tell everyone to wear a facemask and die poor."
It's worse than that though. Behind the facade of the bots running everywhere, teenagers in third world countries earning minimum wage have been recruited to do the job, because the bots /still/ aren't up to it.
Oh yeah. That's the truth. It's even worse than you thought.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @12:47AM (2 children)
The troll can regurgitate a whole rant just on this bit alone.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday May 25 2020, @12:54AM (1 child)
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @01:11AM
No, I just want to see that ~beautiful~ FOSS rant.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by EEMac on Monday May 25 2020, @02:48PM
>> "Your comparison is shit because you don't understand how the Orwellian world worked. The superpowers deliberately didn't develop the technology to do automated spying. They deliberately employed a human secret police force because doing so kept people employed."
> That's a reasonable backport, though I doubt it's historically accurate.
Describing this as a backport was AWESOME.