It adds extra complexity to an already potentially tricky process, though.
Consent is exercised by parents in the interests of the child, not their own interests or desires. Obviously the boundary is generally quite blurry, but in this case it's something that for anyone old enough would clearly require specific consent rather than just being understood, and I'm very skeptical that there's any benefit to Alex from them, though of course it might turn out that he likes them.
Re take/publish, I did object a bit at the time they were taken, but not very strongly. It then got published on the web because all our photos do by default and I didn't really think about it very much. Once I realised it had got to the point where a print had been made and was about to be distributed to family, I objected more strongly and they were unpublished from the web and the print was removed from the bundle and put away. As far as I'm concerned I don't really mind if more are taken if they are kept unpublished until Alex can reasonably decide for himself about what to do with them. (And if he wanted them deleted/destroyed I'd support that. Dunno at what age I'd consider him able to "reasonably decide" though.)
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Date: 2009-04-30 09:24 pm (UTC)Consent is exercised by parents in the interests of the child, not their own interests or desires. Obviously the boundary is generally quite blurry, but in this case it's something that for anyone old enough would clearly require specific consent rather than just being understood, and I'm very skeptical that there's any benefit to Alex from them, though of course it might turn out that he likes them.
Re take/publish, I did object a bit at the time they were taken, but not very strongly. It then got published on the web because all our photos do by default and I didn't really think about it very much. Once I realised it had got to the point where a print had been made and was about to be distributed to family, I objected more strongly and they were unpublished from the web and the print was removed from the bundle and put away. As far as I'm concerned I don't really mind if more are taken if they are kept unpublished until Alex can reasonably decide for himself about what to do with them. (And if he wanted them deleted/destroyed I'd support that. Dunno at what age I'd consider him able to "reasonably decide" though.)