Employee image consent vs. social media

Hi Forum,

In our new world of GDPR compliance, I'm really keen to know how you are all tackling image consent.

We attend many events and use various social media platforms to keep customers informed of what we are doing.

In the past we have happily snapped and posted pictures of staff across these platforms (without issue). However, I realise this is not the way forward.

In some cases we can gain individual consent per picture, but at events this simply isn't possible.

Sales are understandably unhappy with us hampering their progress, so I have had to talk one of the managers of the ceiling this morning.

I want to find a sensible route to gaining consent (maybe per event) for images to be used and would love to hear how others are going about it.

Another example of GDPR and a modern business environment colliding! 

Thanks!

Anna

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  • Hi Anna,

    When I ran a charity event a couple of years ago we had the same problem. We overcame it by using coloured stickers for people to wear which were given out at the start of the event - green for people who were happy to have their pictures used and red for those who weren't. We then only used pictures where the green stickers were clearly visible, or where the people couldn't be identified (back of their head, or blurred in the background, etc)

    Maybe you could do something similar.

    Joanne
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  • Hi Anna,

    When I ran a charity event a couple of years ago we had the same problem. We overcame it by using coloured stickers for people to wear which were given out at the start of the event - green for people who were happy to have their pictures used and red for those who weren't. We then only used pictures where the green stickers were clearly visible, or where the people couldn't be identified (back of their head, or blurred in the background, etc)

    Maybe you could do something similar.

    Joanne
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