It was a matter of time before this happened. It's hard to imagine that one day, In the future, our children denounce us for having published photos of them when they were babies. But it has already happened, it has only had to take the necessary time between the widespread use of the internet and the growing shoots ...
And what until now was to be ashamed when our parents taught our friends or couples the old photo album with our snapshots of naked babies, with ridiculous hairstyles or disguises of horror has become a more serious exhibitionism and difficult to control.
Of course, certain circumstances also have to exist to reach a complaint. For example, a rebellious, complicated adolescence, and some photos that may seem ridiculous to that person who seems to always be against their parents. Some images that are beyond our control, unlike the old photo album that we can close and hide. A good occasion to face the parents?
We have already seen that in France your child will be able to denounce you for posting photos of him on social networks if he considers himself injured. In that case, the French authorities may impose fines of up to 45,000 euros on parents and even one year in prison for posting photos of their children on social networks without permission.
Photos beyond our control
Now the news has jumped that an 18-year-old girl from Carinthia, Austria, has denounced her parents for posting and sharing photos of her when she was a child. Intimate, embarrassing scenes, which include changing diapers, in the potty, nudes ... She argues that there are more than 500 photos that have made her life impossible, images shared by her parents since 2009 without her permission.
Her lawyer believes that she has an easy time winning this complaint (the parents would have to compensate their daughter for the damages) and the girl points out that "she is tired of not being taken seriously by her parents". For their part, parents have refused to delete the photographs, which in principle could have been a good friendly solution. In principle, because we already know how difficult it is to erase a trail on the Internet and the varied implications of the images of minors in the networks.
It seems that this family is not going through its best, since I can think of many ways to have solved the issue of photographs in another way. But the point is that they have reached it and I wonder, could it happen to me? I have not published photos of my daughters in the networks for some time, due to issues like this and other more serious ones that I think could happen with the images. After all, they are not yet aware of what it means to expose their image and I have to decide.
Because we know that pedophiles contact children through the networks, they take advantage of their images, because those photos could end up in any other medium, because even for a possible job they could see you in diapers if they look for information from you on the network, because they I could inquire to see where that boy or girl lives, what school he goes to, because your son may be ashamed in the future ...
These are some of the reasons I can think of to have this subject controlled. And surely this one of the Austrian girl who has denounced her parents is not an isolated case and we will hear about it more often from now on. We do not stop sharing photos of our babies since they are born, we have them in our profile picture, they come out on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram ... And those images, once they go online, are very difficult to control. Attest.
Anyway, what We will have to take more care with the photos we publish of our children on Facebook and ask ourselves, will you feel offended in the future? Will you like it? Who can see them? Can I easily erase them if my son asks me to? Or do photos on the Internet escape our control?
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Via | Daily Mail
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