Salty fines to parents who publish the photos of the children: the French proposal

It happens in France. The state of European parents are warned in recent days that the publication of photographs of their children could cost them a hefty fine and a stop period. This is because of a new legal provision in the approval with which the authorities will decide if a child says that a picture is too revealing there could be the basis for sue, maybe farther in time, the parent for up to 45,000 euro in damages and a year in prison.

"Within a few years the children could easily bring their parents to court for the publication of photos in which they were younger," he told Le Figaro Eric Delcroix, expert in law and ethics on the internet. "In certain phases of the children they do not want to be photographed, and even fewer want the photographs to be made public." In this case the law does not aim to protect infants from malicious third party users, but want to protect their image from prying eyes.

In a 2015 study conducted by child psychologist Catherine Steiner-Adair has been shown that British parents publish an average of 200 photos of their children (under 5 years) each year. So instead he observed the professor Nicola Whitton at Manchester Metropolitan University: "I believe that by doing so we will get in the coming years a reaction by young people, who will find that their whole life has been available since the birth of social media ".

For the French authorities, parents have every right to be proud of their children, but not all are aware of the dangers they face the same children by exposure so massive on the web. Parents should be "the perpetrators of image protection of their children," according to Vivia Gelles, and it is in this perspective that addresses the new provision of law to the state of the Alps to raise awareness among parents and those who already They are about to be on the problem, thus reducing the phenomenon.

The authorities of the French Data Protection Authority has urged parents to implement controls for the strictest privacy in order to limit the potential audience of their photos, and Facebook has been working in recent years to try to make it simple settings for privacy . The company also announced innovations in the field of children coming in the near future, with a warning that might appear automatically whenever the system identifies a public post that contains photographs with children.

"If I had to upload a picture of my children play in the park and share it accidentally with the public this system could tell me that is a picture of my children," said Jay Parikh, Facebook's vice president of engineering, in a lecture given last November. The notice may be so: "Normally you publish this content only for a limited audience, are you sure you want to do?"