The Court of Rome has sentenced a mother to pay 10,000 euros to her 16-year-old son if he continues publishing photos, videos and your data on social networks and does not proceed to delete all previously published information.
This judicial decision sows a precedent in Italy, although it is not the first country that contemplates fines of this type in order to protect the child from the behavior of their parents in social networks.
An unsustainable situation for the child
The boy, 16, he felt upset about his mother's behavior which continuously disclosed through social networks all kinds of personal information about him, family data, photographs and even content related to the divorce process he was carrying out.
Such was the malaise of the child that he came to ask the judges for the possibility of continuing their studies in a foreign school for "get away from the current social context, in which all her classmates would be aware of her personal affairs, brought to the attention of her mother with the constant and systematic use of social networks".
The sentence, issued in December last year, has condemned the mother to pay up to 10,000 euros of fine to her son if he continues to publish comments and material about his life and Do not remove previous posts.
Authorization in case of divorce
Although this resolution of the Court of Rome has sown a unique precente in Italy, the Italian press affirms that there have been many judicial decisions that have been taken on this issue, and that they have forced parents to delete Facebook profiles opened on behalf of their children, to remove photographs of their children published on social networks, and even those published on their personal WhatsApp profiles.
Decisions related to the public image of children is one of the things that most faces couples, especially during family crises or in processes of separation and divorce.
So much so that the courts often encounter cases of separated or divorced parents in litigation because one of them has published information or photographs on social networks of the child they have in common. without asking the other parent for consent.
In Italy, for example, the provisions that regulate the public management of the image of minors they should be discussed as part of the conditions in cases of separation or divorce. That is, parents must agree if they allow the other party to publish photographs on their children's social networks.
In our country, and as reported by the ABC newspaper, it is not necessary for both parents to agree in the publication of photos and data on social networks about your child. It is enough that one of them authorizes it, and in case of denunciation on the part of the other parent it will be a judge who decides if the use of these photographs has been adequate and reasonable or, on the contrary, it has harmed the minor (as it seems to have been the case with the Italian mother).
Take care of the image of children in social networks
Since the appearance of social networks we all learn on the fly the different aspects related to its use and its consequences. Therefore, it is not surprising that more and more we are going to know sentences like that of Italy in other countries of the world.
In fact, a year ago we echoed the fines of up to 45,000 euros that French authorities can impose on parents who publish photographs of their children on social networks without their permission. And also in Austria we met the case of an 18-year-old girl who He had denounced his parents for sharing in his social networks more than 500 photographs of him since I was a child that "they had made his life impossible".
And it is that the fashion of selfies and social networks lead us, on many occasions, to neglect what we publish about our children, and not to be aware of the damage that in the future, certain photographs, videos or information could cause them.
Not surprisingly, it has been studied that in the first years of a child's life his parents get to share up 200 photographs of him a year, so that at five years old he will already have a thousand images of him circulating without control over the network, between YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, blogs ...
And it is no longer "just" that our children may feel bad in the future because of the amount of material we have published about them, nor that they make the decision to report us if they believe we have harmed them.
It's about being aware that when we upload a photograph to social networks we immediately lose control, and we assign the rights of that image to the social network in question: to spread and share photographs of our children, as well as giving information about their tastes, hobbies and lifestyle could open the doors to pedophiles or stalkers.
Therefore, it is important educate them from childhood on the responsible use of technologies, so that when they are old enough to manage their own social profiles, they know how to do it safely.
And while they are small, experts recommend that it is best to preserve your privacy and identity by not publishing photographs or data on social networks, or failing that, hiding their faces and avoiding giving their names, locations, school where they study or any other personal data.
Via Il sole 24 ore, Euronews
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