Woman Sues Parents For Sharing Embarrassing Childhood Photos On Facebook

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Thanks to Facebook, we now have to put up with lawsuits like this. Back in the day, you only had to worry about your parents busting out the baby pictures during family get togethers or when you brought your date home for the first time. Since when can you sue over baby pictures anyway?

A 18-year-old woman from Carinthia is suing her parents for posting photos of her on Facebook without her consent. She claims that since 2009 they have made her life a misery by constantly posting photos of her, including embarrassing and intimate images from her childhood. Her lawyer Michael Rami says that to date, her parents have posted 500 images of her on the social media site without her consent, and he believes she has a good chance of winning in court.
 
and i thought my family could be dysfunctional, damn. sounds like a spoiled brat wanting her parent's money to me, because who the hell cares THAT MUCH or cant speak to their own parents? judge should order family counseling, not damages.

besides, that is Austria, not the US. i'd imagine this'll be dismissed. or that the lawsuit was a "fu" to her family and she knew it'd be dismissed.
 
I feel sorry for any guy that enters into a relationship with her.

Now if her parents are beings jerks and posting stuff to intentionally hurt her, then that is a different story altogether.
 
Actually, at least in the UK, suing can be a good way of transferring assets as tax is not levied on damages and they are not subject to the seven year gift rule.
 
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Honestly if she made a request to her parents to take down the photos and they refuse to honor that constantly, what choice are you left with? The case seems very simple to me. She objected to them posting photos of her and they kept escalating it by adding more up to the point there are more than 500. It doesn't seem like that it happened in one day.
 
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sean.b said:
and i thought my family could be dysfunctional, damn. sounds like a spoiled brat wanting her parent's money to me, because who the hell cares THAT MUCH or cant speak to their own parents? judge should order family counseling, not damages.

besides, that is Austria, not the US. i'd imagine this'll be dismissed. or that the lawsuit was a "fu" to her family and she knew it'd be dismissed.
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cyclone3d said:
I feel sorry for any guy that enters into a relationship with her.

Now if her parents are beings jerks and posting stuff to intentionally hurt her, then that is a different story altogether.
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did either of you bother to read the story? She asked her patents to remove them. They told her they took them and can post them if they want as they own the pictures. So she already tried to talk to them, they won't listen and are wanting to continue posting them and putting up more knowing it hurts her.
 
Kaitian said:
Honestly if she made a request to her parents to take down the photos and they refuse to honor that constantly, what choice are you left with? The case seems very simple to me. She objected to them posting photos of her and they kept escalating it by adding more.
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So she is the boss of her parents from the age of 11?

If one of my children asks me to not make them go to bed every night, and I refuse, should they sue me?

Her parents are in charge of her until she has left the home.

Maybe the parents are jerks.. maybe not. We don't know the whole story.
 
cyclone3d said:
So she is the boss of her parents from the age of 11?

If one of my children asks me to not make them go to bed every night, and I refuse, should they sue me?

Her parents are in charge of her until she has left the home.

Maybe the parents are jerks.. maybe not. We don't know the whole story.
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She is an adult now and she has rights to request her parents to stop doing things. Again read the story. She requested her parents stop posting photos and they said no and kept escalating it to the point there are more than 500 photos of her. The child in the photo is still her they post and it doesn't change.

Think of it this way.
January: They posted 10 photos of her - she asked them to not post more photos and take down those photos of her. They said no.
February: They posted another 20 photos, she ask them to stop posting more photos and take down what they've posted.
March: They post another 50 photos and still they refuse to honor her request and are happy to escalate.
April: They post another 100 photos and she's still demanding that her parents stop posting them and remove what they have.
May: They post another 200 photos and still refuses to heed her request.

This case isn't some situation where they posted 500 photos in one day and she sues them.
 
Exavior said:
did either of you bother to read the story? She asked her patents to remove them. They told her they took them and can post them if they want as they own the pictures. So she already tried to talk to them, they won't listen and are wanting to continue posting them and putting up more knowing it hurts her.
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So they are posting baby and toddler pics... annnnnddddd?????

Sounds to me like the girl is a whiney "snowflake".
 
Quartz-1 said:
Actually, at least in the UK, suing can be a good way of transferring assets as tax is not levied on damages and they are not subject to the seven year gift rule.
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Intriguing angle! And, here I was just thinking it was legally interesting to see who owns childhood picture rights!
 
Kaitian said:
She is an adult now and she has rights to request her parents to stop doing things. Again read the story. She requested her parents stop posting photos and they said no and kept escalating it to the point there are more than 500 photos of her. The child in the photo is still her they post and it doesn't change.
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Right.. but she is stating that they started when she was 11. Probably when they first got Facebook accounts.

At that point she had no say in it.

At the very least, she should only be complaining about them continuing to do it AFTER she is an adult, not before then.

Bringing up "since 2009", when she was only 11 should have absolutely no bearing in the "case".
 
cyclone3d said:
So they are posting baby and toddler pics... annnnnddddd?????

Sounds to me like the girl is a whiney "snowflake".
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Again, this happened over a 7 year period from the time she was 11 years old and she's been extremely embarrassed by the content which they posted even nude pictures of her. If my child which I have two asked me to stop doing something I do to them, I will be happy to honor their request. Now that she's 18 years old, she has every right to tell her parents to take down those pictures. It seems like a case of parents who love to embarrass the shit out of their children to the point it causes them misery. My parents used to do that to me and I had enough of their shit at one point that they stopped doing it when I threatened them that they could not see their grandchildren. Newsflash: There are a lot of parents that actually thrives on the misery of their children (my sister-in-law being one of them from her own mother.)
 
cyclone3d said:
Right.. but she is stating that they started when she was 11. Probably when they first got Facebook accounts.

At that point she had no say in it.

At the very least, she should only be complaining about them continuing to do it AFTER she is an adult, not before then.

Bringing up "since 2009", when she was only 11 should have absolutely no bearing in the "case".
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You just proved my point. They ESCALATED it over time and were doing it for their own satisfaction at the expense of their child. I guess you really like getting "Likes" over your child's happiness.
 
cyclone3d said:
Right.. but she is stating that they started when she was 11. Probably when they first got Facebook accounts.

At that point she had no say in it.

At the very least, she should only be complaining about them continuing to do it AFTER she is an adult, not before then.

Bringing up "since 2009", when she was only 11 should have absolutely no bearing in the "case".
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lol you're seriously gonna be stubborn about it just because you didn't read the thread, so you're going to take the parents side?
 
Exavior said:
did either of you bother to read the story? She asked her patents to remove them. They told her they took them and can post them if they want as they own the pictures. So she already tried to talk to them, they won't listen and are wanting to continue posting them and putting up more knowing it hurts her.
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You do realize in many countries children do not hold the rights of an adult. She is only now 18. It is entirely possible that legally in Austria, this child doesn't have the legal right to protest, or didn't prior to her current age. Therefor all previous requests may not have had any legal power behind them. Now she is eighteen and perhaps it will be different. But I am not so sure it will go that way no matter how reasonable some people think this is. Those pictures don't only represent the girl. They most likely also represent the love those people hold for their daughter, their pride in her. Sure, a few of those pics may seem overly intimate, like a pic of her on the toilet. Do you think she was 3 years old at that time or 17? Does that make a difference?

I think this girl is going to lose far more than she gains by doing this.
 
PhaseNoise said:
So they are stalking her, taking photos outside her own house at night?

Or are these photos from family gatherings, probably taken in the parent's own house?
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Neither. The story implies that they are personal photos of her that they've taken themselves from the point she was a baby and it also states that they even posted nude pictures of her when she was a child. This was distributed out to around 700 friends on their Facebook which she kept asking them from the point she was 11 years old and they refused to honor her request and kept escalating it to 18 years old which still they refuse to honor her request.

The question you have to ask yourself is this, what's more important? The likes of your 700 friends or your child's happiness? It's pretty clear that her parents valued the likes of their 700 friends over her happiness.
 
Who owns the rights to the photos? The subject or the photographer? Would that a defense or not?

My youngest doesn't like his picture taken because my wife will post it on Facebook. He'll let me take his picture all I want because I don't post it. I like having pictures because I like looking through old pictures. I respect his wishes when it comes to his privacy and posting stuff. I have some good ones, and he's seen all of them. He's let me post a couple (he asked me to), which is cool. My oldest? "Post pics. All the pics. Here, let me pose. Post that one." :)

I think you should respect your kids and what they want. Don't go overboard, but with something so simple as this? Come on....
 
Ur_Mom said:
Who owns the rights to the photos? The subject or the photographer? Would that a defense or not?

My youngest doesn't like his picture taken because my wife will post it on Facebook. He'll let me take his picture all I want because I don't post it. I like having pictures because I like looking through old pictures. I respect his wishes when it comes to his privacy and posting stuff. I have some good ones, and he's seen all of them. He's let me post a couple (he asked me to), which is cool. My oldest? "Post pics. All the pics. Here, let me pose. Post that one." :)

I think you should respect your kids and what they want. Don't go overboard, but with something so simple as this? Come on....
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I have two boys and I love to post photos of my boys because it makes me happy. I don't post all of those pictures because they can be too intimate that I don't want to share that. If my boys at some point tells me that they don't want me posting certain pictures of them, I'm going to be the dad I am and will do what they want because it makes me happy that it makes them happy.

It seems like in this circumstances, the parents were being dicks to their child and reveled in that crap.
 
Sounds like the parents are the ones with the problem. I can't imagine not honoring my daughters request at 11 if she said they embarrassed her and asked me to stop , much less doing it more and more to be vindictive to my kids.
 
Kaitian said:
Neither. The story implies that they are personal photos of her that they've taken themselves from the point she was a baby and it also states that they even posted nude pictures of her when she was a child. This was distributed out to around 700 friends on their Facebook which she kept asking them from the point she was 11 years old and they refused to honor her request and kept escalating it to 18 years old which still they refuse to honor her request.
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Sorry, I deleted that post because it sounded snarky but you beat me to it... :)

So what I'm getting at is:
1) Since she was under 18 she was clearly living at home, and a part of a family. Families take photos, and sometimes we don't like it.
2) Over 18 - if she's still living at home, I think she's kinda on "their tab" and she clearly knows they like photos at this point. She is free to leave, move out, and thus be out of the photos at this point. Unless they are stalking her outside her own house, in which case, yes, sue them.

Now devil's advocate aside, I do get it. It's not the taking of the photos, it's the posting to a large group. My teenage nieces/nephews/kids are okay with a policy I came up with which was a "family only" group for posting. Just family members see those photos, it's not a worldwide things, and most importantly to them, contains none of their friends. However, family is going to see family photos and I don't care that much if they approve or not.
 
Dahkoht said:
Sounds like the parents are the ones with the problem. I can't imagine not honoring my daughters request at 11 if she said they embarrassed her and asked me to stop , much less doing it more and more to be vindictive to my kids.
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Yeah but you don't have any idea what she was like as a kid or is like now. It's entirely possible she has always been an entitled little brat and her parents started out ignoring her to teach her a lesson and now they just don't like her all that much. Or they're incredibly shitty parents. There are loads of people who fit those definitions.

Either way I don't see her winning this one. If you don't like what your parents are doing tell them to fuck off and cut them out of your life and move on. OR you can file a lawsuit and draw a crap ton more attention to the very photos you claim are embarrassing you so much and make sure that they never leave the internet. Seems like a solid game plan there.
 
Nothing wrong with a few embarrassing photos to show family or close friends.

Show the Whole world though, nothing wrong there either. As long as she isn't naked. That is crossing the line.
 
thesmokingman said:
lol, why is she a a spoiled brat? She wants her pictures private not posted on the internets. What's surprising are her parents who ignore her request. It's yore damn parents!
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Can always tell those who had a stable family life and a normal upbringing from those who haven't... :/
 
I'd assume it'd be: parents took the pictures so they have copyright over them, they never got a model release form signed, but I doubt they needed to since she was under 18. Now that she's 18 it's time to sue.
 
Despite her requests, they (parents) have refused to delete the photos - prompting her to sue them

Comeone they did ask for it...
Not the girls fault that the parents prefered that way to handle things.
 
scojer said:
Nothing wrong with a few embarrassing photos to show family or close friends.

Show the Whole world though, nothing wrong there either. As long as she isn't naked. That is crossing the line.
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She was, in fact, naked in some of them: "They knew no shame and no limit - and didn’t care whether it was a picture of me sitting on the toilet or lying naked in my cot - every stage was photographed and then made public,” the 18-year-old said. The photos were shared on Facebook with her parents' 700 friends.

If I had a kid, I definitely wouldn't be posting stuff like that.
 
Kaitian said:
They do own the pictures but they placed the priority of likes from 700 friends over their daughter's request and kept escalating it for 7 years.
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Don't think it matters, perhaps they are teaching her a lesson not to be vain. They raised her, provided for her, and hopefully schooled her. If they want to post pictures of her when they legally had the right to I don't see a problem, regardless of how "embarrassed" she is. She sounds pretty emotionally disturbed to want to sue her parents over some childhood photos, though.
 
Chaos Machine said:
Don't think it matters, perhaps they are teaching her a lesson not to be vain. They raised her, provided for her, and hopefully schooled her. If they want to post pictures of her when they legally had the right to I don't see a problem, regardless of how "embarrassed" she is. She sounds pretty emotionally disturbed to want to sue her parents over some childhood photos, though.
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7 years of teaching her a lesson not to be vain? They posted it to over 700 people on Facebook and kept doing this when she asked them stop over all those years. They escalated it. It's basically saying that you will keep beating your employees until morale improves.

Seriously. Do you actually value the Facebook likes from friends over your children (assuming you have children like I do) as these parents did to her?
 
Chaos Machine said:
Don't think it matters, perhaps they are teaching her a lesson not to be vain. They raised her, provided for her, and hopefully schooled her. If they want to post pictures of her when they legally had the right to I don't see a problem, regardless of how "embarrassed" she is. She sounds pretty emotionally disturbed to want to sue her parents over some childhood photos, though.
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smh
 
This is the quote from the father in another publication:
"In the end this is our child, and for my wife and me, it's a nice family album that's been well received by our Facebook friends,"
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Good job dad. You cared about what your Facebook friends think over your own daughter.
 
Kaitian said:
This is the quote from the father in another publication:
Good job dad. You cared about what your Facebook friends think over your own daughter.
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No shit.

I don't care what the child did , if she was vain and a princess or a bitch or a perfect darling. She's your daughter. She matters more than any of your fucking facebook friends. Period.

There's ZERO excuse to try and for years do this to your kid. If she's a raging bitch and you've tried and tried fine , cut ties if you feel the need. But you don't go Ex-Girlfriend revenge mode and publicly do shit against your own kid.

Ever.

Those of you who think it's ok i'm hoping have no daughter. There's no way in hell my daughter could do anything that would make me do this against her wishes.
 
Kaitian said:
Again, this happened over a 7 year period from the time she was 11 years old and she's been extremely embarrassed by the content which they posted even nude pictures of her. If my child which I have two asked me to stop doing something I do to them, I will be happy to honor their request. Now that she's 18 years old, she has every right to tell her parents to take down those pictures. It seems like a case of parents who love to embarrass the shit out of their children to the point it causes them misery. My parents used to do that to me and I had enough of their shit at one point that they stopped doing it when I threatened them that they could not see their grandchildren. Newsflash: There are a lot of parents that actually thrives on the misery of their children (my sister-in-law being one of them from her own mother.)
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Nude photos? That could be considered child porn. Those parents better just back down before a whole world of hurt comes their way.
 
lostinseganet said:
Nude photos? That could be considered child porn. Those parents better just back down before a whole world of hurt comes their way.
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Yes and no. It really depends on the situation. A naked baby from when they were born has a different treatment than say a naked child at a later age.
 
Maybe the daughter should take a few pictures of her parents sitting on the toilet, having sex and running around the house in various states of dress and post them on her Facebook account. Turnabout often being fair play. Wonder what the copyright laws are in Austria? And the photography subject release laws? The parents probably could grant any releases needed while the daughter was a minor, but assuming Austria considers 18 an adult, she might be able to revoke any usage releases. Be interesting to see how this one plays out.
 
Kaitian said:
Honestly if she made a request to her parents to take down the photos and they refuse to honor that constantly, what choice are you left with? The case seems very simple to me. She objected to them posting photos of her and they kept escalating it by adding more up to the point there are more than 500. It doesn't seem like that it happened in one day.
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Well if they're anything like my parents, I could go over to their house (while their gone) delete everything from their facebook account, change the password and contact information, format their computer, basically destroy everything.

That said she should be suing facebook since their "tag" system lets everyone know who was in those photos.
 
lostinseganet said:
Nude photos? That could be considered child porn. Those parents better just back down before a whole world of hurt comes their way.
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When I was growing up in Toronto; I remember seeing a billboard with naked baby's butt on it. I don't recall any fuss over that in newspapers/T.V.
 
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