What used to Henriette's children's bazaar is now, with a similar methodology, the Facebook page "Lost and Found".
Lost property office – what’s happening here? The Facebook page “Lost and Found” is a page on which pictures of children are shared. However, these images do NOT come from the site owner himself, but images are shared on the site by strangers who have posted them publicly. Parents and grandparents are always shocked when sites like these share pictures of their children and grandchildren on Facebook.
We repeat at this point because we are often misunderstood in this context : Of course we understand the situation itself, it feels “wrong” when strangers share their own pictures. But if you upload a photo to Facebook and set your privacy to public, then it is completely unproblematic for Facebook pages like “Lost and Found” to share these third-party photos. Therefore we say clearly:
- We are not defending the site.
- We are not behind the site.
- We have no contact with the operators.
- Yes, we condemn it when fans comment insultingly on the pictures.
- We want to show you how you can smother this page.
It is the users' self-selected privacy settings that make it possible for complete strangers to legally share photos on Facebook.
Whether on another profile, in groups or on pages: This is not forbidden and is simply because these photos have the privacy setting “Public”.
Every Facebook user gave their basic permission to use this function when they agreed to the terms and conditions. Because Facebook says in its own terms and conditions: “You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP license).” In this way, the Facebook user legitimizes that their own content can be shared on Facebook within the framework of the privacy settings they have determined.
Even if you, as the person affected, are very angry and try to report the site operator, the police will not be able to do anything because the site itself - the site operator itself - has not violated any law. Neither copyright nor personal rights are violated by these pages.
Exception: comments!
It becomes legally relevant the moment commentators on the site or the distributors (admins of the site) change their tone. Not only do we advise against commenting, but we also condemn this type of insult. The approach would be, if you go to the police, to target these insults, as they offer a target.
However, uncommented distributions on Facebook cannot be attacked.
How do you put an end to the haunting?
By the way, it is very easy to stop this distribution. You don't have to ask the site operator to do this, you can simply do it yourself:
If you don't want Facebook pages like Lost and Found to be able to share your photos, pay attention to the privacy settings of your photos. In all cases shown there, it is the profile owners THEMSELVES who uploaded the photos and chose the “public” status. From a technical point of view, lost and found does nothing other than share pictures as part of the “Share” function on Facebook.
The site thus illustrates what is possible on Facebook with images that have public status. It is up to you to ensure that these images disappear from the site: change the privacy setting! The moment you change the status from “Public” to “Friends”, the sharing is over and the image has also disappeared on the page.
If it is your cover or profile picture, it is recommended to change this picture and then change the privacy of the old picture.
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