“…Aware of the responsibility of developing ethically informed research with children, the challenge was how to properly implement the various stages of the research. The initial one, which has to do with the necessary consent of the child's legal guardians, becomes more complex when framed in a context in which, prior to the pandemic context, Portugal was already going through a complicated moment, resulting from the obligations/readings made to the General Data Protection Regulation, 4 which led to the raising of significant barriers, both in the access to children and in the use of their images. Fernandes and Caputo identify, regarding these limitations, a ghost image of the child that, in the opinion of the authors, reveals "[...] processes that disrespect basic ethical care, disrespecting their ontological condition as subjects, appearing subsumed to an adult order that decides for them, sometimes shamelessly using their image, sometimes making it invisible" (2021, p. 17, our translation).…”