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posted by martyb on Sunday May 24 2020, @10:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the pics-or-it-didn't-happen? dept.

Wanna force granny to take down that family photo from the internet? No problem. Europe's GDPR to the rescue:

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).


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Mykl on Monday May 25 2020, @01:09AM (5 children)

    by Mykl (1112) on Monday May 25 2020, @01:09AM (#998662)

    Knowing how to code does not make you a develop. You also need to:

    • Know how to work constructively with a range of stakeholder groups (other developers, testers, users, business reps)
    • Know how to compromise and work to a central coding standard rather than just doing whatever you want
    • Be able to understand that sometimes the user wants something that you would not want, and that it's your job to provide them that rather than argue with them
    • Keeping the last point in mind, realising that the user may not appreciate the implications or consequences of what they are asking for, and to _constructively_ influence their decisions

    This just off the top of my head. There would be more, but I'm outta time

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @01:21AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @01:21AM (#998669)

    Knowing how to code does not make you a developer. You also need to:

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    Fuck MDC

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @04:57AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @04:57AM (#998738)

      The jealousy is real.

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Mykl on Monday May 25 2020, @06:53AM

      by Mykl (1112) on Monday May 25 2020, @06:53AM (#998764)

      Your views on working constructively with others says everything we need to know.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:33AM (#998695)

    So many corporations are inept and will discriminate against you for any random reason, even if you can do the job perfectly well. Don't forget about that.

    • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:46AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 25 2020, @02:46AM (#998704)

      Corporations are built on lies told to investors. Don't forget about that. Lying about hiring makes corporations look more successful than they are, then duped investors invest, making perception into reality. Too bad about all those losing applicants who get processed and rejected as corporations go through the motions of pretending to hire with no intention of hiring anyone.

      Fuck MDC