France passed the Children’s Image Rights Law to protect children by minimizing risks from parents or guardians sharing kids’ photos and videos and from those images being disseminated.

Different from laws such as the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, which focuses on data processing and sales, this looks to reduce risk of exposure and reinforces the importance of protecting children, even when they are too young to advocate for themselves. It reinforces rights to access the images, ensures rectification, erasure, and the right to object how personal images are used.