Social-Media
Grandmother's posting Facebook photos of her grandchildren violates the GDPR privacy rule, court said.
Until this weekend, a grandma in the Netherlands has had to remove photos of her grandchildren from her Facebook page, or face daily fines, after a judge found that she violated the strict rules of the European Union's online privacy policy, BBC reported.
Generally, the EU General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR) does not apply to personal or household information. But in this scenario, the grandma was asked by her stray daughter — the mother of the children — to take the photos. The ruling claimed that the uploading of images on social media could make them accessible to a wider audience.
"With Facebook, it can not be ruled out that the images put will be circulated and could end up in the hands of third parties," according to the ruling. On 13 May, the court ordered the grandma to take photos within 10 days or pay a daily fine of €50 (approximately $54.50) for every day the photos remain up, with a maximum fine of €1,000 (approximately $1,089).
Under the GDPR, which entered into force in 2018, if a company collects personal data from an EU citizen, the company requires the express consent of the individual concerned. In its first two years, strict privacy legislation generated EUR 114 million ($126 million) in fines and resulted in over 160,000 notifications of infringements of data across Europe.
