Did you post your child's photo on Facebook without his permission? Prison year and € 45,000 fine

    New legislative initiative of France can stop the dominance of children's photos on social networks



    Recently, French parents warned citizens that posting photos of their children on social networks without permission from the children themselves is fraught with punishment for adults. The strict laws of France to protect the privacy of citizens allow parents to be fined up to € 45,000 or even sentence unlucky relatives to a year in prison if it is proved that the parents posted photos of children without permission of the children themselves. This law works not only in relation to children - in France, a similar punishment awaits all who post photos of other people without permission, if the latter go to court.

    “In a few years, children will be able to sue their parents for publishing children's photos without the children's permission,” said Eric Delcroix, an expert on legislation on the Network and network ethics. And children have every chance of getting good compensation, according to French lawyers.

    Viviane Gelles, a lawyer who deals with the relationship of people on the web, states that "parents are responsible for the inviolability of their children's photos." “We often criticize teenagers for the way they behave, but their parents are no better,” she comments on the situation. She also claims that older children will feel embarrassed because of the photos on the web, previously posted by their parents.



    This is especially true for photos of naked children. French police have repeatedly warned parents against posting photos of their naked children on the web. Some parents were even forced to remove previously posted photos. This is done, as it turned out, to counteract pedophiles.

    Facebook is already considering the possibility of creating a warning system for parents posting photos of their children on the web. It will work as follows: if a user accidentally places a photo of his child playing in the park on a social network, she will ask if the person is really ready to do it. But this is the case if the content of the picture is very at odds with those pictures that the user will usually stir.

    French police also believe that laying out pictures of their children by parents can lead to the fact that criminals will redeem such images in order to better identify the victim for the burglary, for example.

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