Data Protection Commission Publishes Annual Report for 2025 and Results of “Sharenting” Survey
Ireland's Data Protection Commission has released its 2025 annual report alongside findings from a survey focused on 'sharenting' — the practice of parents posting photos and information about their children online. The report covers the DPC's enforcement and regulatory activity for the year.
Why this matters: Children cannot consent to having their lives documented online. When parents post photos, school updates, or health details, that data is out there permanently — indexed, scraped, and potentially used in ways nobody anticipated. The DPC surveying this practice suggests regulators are starting to treat sharenting as a real data protection issue, not just a parenting choice. That matters because the child bears the risk, not the parent doing the posting. If this moves from survey to enforcement, platforms and parents alike will need to think harder about who actually owns a child's digital footprint.
Who should care: General readers · Privacy officers · Policy
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