Grandmother ordered to delete photos of grandkids

ADutch grandmother has been ordered to delete photos of her three grandchildren that she posted online without the permission of their parents. They took her to court after she refused requests to take down the photos, which she had uploaded to Facebook and Pinterest.

The judge in the Dutch province of Gelderland ruled that the case broke the EU’S privacy rules as set in the GDPR.

In the Netherlands, the law dictates that posting pictures of children under 16 requires permission from their legal guardians.

The case is thought to be the first in which GDPR has been used to solve a family dispute, rather than restricting how much information companies can collect about you.

The judge said that although GDPR doesn’t apply to how data is used on a personal level, it was relevant in this case because posting photos on social media made them available to a wider audience.

“With Facebook, it cannot be ruled out that placed photos may be distributed and may end up in the hands of third parties,” the judgement said.

The woman must now remove the photos or pay a fine of €50 (around £45) for every day that she fails to comply, up to a maximum of €1,000.

She will also be fined €50 a day if she posts more photos of the children in future.

Neil Brown, a technology lawyer at Decoded Legal, told the BBC: “I think the ruling will surprise a lot of people who probably don’t think too much before they tweet or post photos”.