Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:36 am
#1617529
Another GDPR over reaction ... I think (hope!)
I am a member of a car club which produces a monthly mag and has a website. Both often feature photographs taken at 'events'. Some of the these events are in public places such as pub car parks where club members meet up before or after a road run; this is when photographs are often taken. Another 'event' the club might attend is a gathering of several motor clubs where the public are be invited to attend and pay an entrance fee for the privilege, and where also photographs are often taken.
Someone has offered advice to our club that if any none club members appears in the pictures taken at these events their faces have to be 'greyed' out, a la Google street view.
The logic being offered is that our club members are signed up to club policy on data storage and sharing which leads to their consent to be photographed, this is not the case for any passing member of the general public so we either seek consent at the time the picture is taken or we 'grey out' their image before publishing the picture.
As the clubs webmaster I have been tasked with implementing this 'greying out' policy on all photographs I publish on the website in future; oh and I've also been asked to review every photograph already on the website site and grey out all none members.
My gut reaction is that this is not quite what the information commissioner had in mind when setting up GDPR; or perhaps you might tell me otherwise.
I am a member of a car club which produces a monthly mag and has a website. Both often feature photographs taken at 'events'. Some of the these events are in public places such as pub car parks where club members meet up before or after a road run; this is when photographs are often taken. Another 'event' the club might attend is a gathering of several motor clubs where the public are be invited to attend and pay an entrance fee for the privilege, and where also photographs are often taken.
Someone has offered advice to our club that if any none club members appears in the pictures taken at these events their faces have to be 'greyed' out, a la Google street view.
The logic being offered is that our club members are signed up to club policy on data storage and sharing which leads to their consent to be photographed, this is not the case for any passing member of the general public so we either seek consent at the time the picture is taken or we 'grey out' their image before publishing the picture.
As the clubs webmaster I have been tasked with implementing this 'greying out' policy on all photographs I publish on the website in future; oh and I've also been asked to review every photograph already on the website site and grey out all none members.
My gut reaction is that this is not quite what the information commissioner had in mind when setting up GDPR; or perhaps you might tell me otherwise.