[thelist] photo usage/consent question

mike karthauser mikek at brightstorm.co.uk
Tue Aug 19 05:03:45 CDT 2003


on 19/8/03 7:37 am, Ed McCarroll at Ed at ComSimplicity.com wrote:

> That might depend upon what country you are in.
> 
> Whether or not it's legal, your boss is right to be concerned about
> upsetting the parents.  (Got kids?)

I've worked on web sites for education and they have had the same concerns
about publication of pictures of kids.

The main reason is supposably so kids cannot be traced by the dodgy. In your
case I cannot see how anonymous pictures of kids is going to allow anyone to
trace them back to their house as you no doubt do don include their names or
addresses.

In the old days (1980's) if we saw a picture of us on the tv or in the paper
we were well chuffed.

If parents are so stuffy that they wouldn¹t want pictures of their kids
enjoying themselves on the net than that is sad.

Your personal website is I guess in the public domain as the public could
get access - I think it should depend on how many people are visiting it
though. If you password protected your gallery that would be even worse
though..

Incidentally the school ended up publishing pictures of their own kids. I
don¹t know whether they got parental consent -
http://www.hotwells.bristol.sch.uk/class3.html - you are hardly able to
identify the children.

The child safely debate is really flawed as it is proven that people that
interfere with children are usually friends of the family anyway.
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