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What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

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Re: What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?

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Post by pks016 »

TomMasz wrote: post #268

I do a lot of photography, including "street" photography, but I don't shoot photos of people. I believe that you should be asked for your consent to be photographed, and I tend to avoid social interaction whenever possible. I empathize with the author here. I would probably say "yes" in that situation, but I would also expect to be asked.

I also do occasional street photography. I'm opposite of your view. I don't ask for consent and take photos (even candids). People rarely have problems. If they have, they'll come and ask me not to include them in the frame.

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Post by Extropy_ »

hedora wrote: post #327
Extropy_ wrote: post #308

It's clear that "privacy " in public spaces requires a fair bit of entitlement, why can't we all just love one another and let it go? What harm comes from being in someone's cool AirSoft video? Is it just a matter of principle that bothers you or something deeper?

For one thing, the video might have objectionable content edited into it. For instance, one video could be filmed by a genocidal maga nutjob, and a second could be a documentary about how PLA doesn’t biodegrade, made by a woke LGBTQ+ immigrant with a working understanding of chemistry, physics and biology. Almost 100% of the US would be upset to know they supported the production of at least one of those videos.

That they're upset does not mean that the world should bend to their feelings. I think you would agree that getting upset does not necessarily mean something is wrong externally, oftentimes things are wrong internally. Thank you for taking the time to reply

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Post by Kye »

physicsguy wrote: post #286
gms7777 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m currently wedding planning and regularly visit a wedding planning forum. I was left flabbergasted the other day when someone posted if it would be ok to ask guests to not post pictures of the couple on social media. They’re ok with guests posting pictures of themselves or of the venue and decor, they just don’t really want pictures of the bride and groom. The response ranged from “you can ask but you can’t preven…

This gets asked at basically every wedding I've been to in the UK i.e. there is a professional photographer, please don't take photos of the bride and groom in the church and it still gets ignored. At my own wedding, one of the guests (not even someone invited to the whole day, just a neighbour of my wife's parents who knew her growing up) is leaning out of the aisle with their phone taking photos ruining a load of p…

I've seen posts from wedding photographers who would pass around cheap/older cameras to guests. This lets people scratch the shutterbug itch while avoiding all the problems that come with a room full of people trying to get a shot.

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Post by mrguyorama »

agedclock wrote: post #169
eterm wrote: post #29

I wonder if it's a generational or cultural difference present in the comments here. I am sympathetic to the author, and I also find video a bit invasive of privacy in a way that photos aren't. I therefore find the (obviously common) attitude that videos are just "something you need to accept" quite alien, but I wonder how much of that attitude is just comments coming from a younger generation that have grown up with…

It is not a generational thing at all. There were plenty of TV shows centred around candid camera / security camera / home video footage back in the 1980s/1990s well before digital cameras or the internet was ubiquitous.

Watch any home VHS video from the 80s. Half the people the person holding the camera points it at say "stop filming me"

There's just always been people uncomfortable with it.

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Post by pixl97 »

footy wrote: post #302
insertchatbot wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And also, some people could suffer real damages. Imagine if someone is lying to their wife about what they do on the weekend or about who they've gone to a conference with. Or imagine if someone has found themselves with dangerous enemies who discover where they go, what they do and with whom. At the moment, these things are not the problem of the person taking the video

right. My younger sister was stalked by a crazy ex for years. According to some of the people here that would mean she had no right to participate in a regular activity.

Since you're allergic to peanuts that means everybody should be banned from eating peanuts and we should stop growing them, right?

While directly providing said stalker with information seems like a harmful, and likely prosecutable behavior, the indirect providing of information is not a burden the general public should bear for another parties already illegal actions.

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Post by vanviegen »

carlosjobim wrote: post #311
bluecheese452 wrote: post #299

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This is one of the weirdest takes I have ever heard.

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I'm not familiar with this old and cherished tradition of each guest taking photos and videos of a wedding they attend, in order to show them off to anybody who will look in exchange for reputation points.

Your idea of a polite society sounds rather rude to me.

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Post by card_zero »

randomtoast wrote: post #223

> Publishing someone’s photo online, without their consent, without another strong justification, just because they happen to be in view of one’s camera lens, feels wrong to me We are getting monitored all the time, we are in an age where cameras are omnipresent. Everyone carries one in their pocket in the form of a smartphone, and countless stationary cameras are installed throughout cities. When you walk through st…

Being monitored, or tracked or stalked, is different from having your photo published.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

webstrand wrote: post #352
greenavocado wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most states in the United States allow one one-party consent for audio recordings.

Under US federal law one-party consent requires that you actually be a party to the conversation. This is why most security cameras do not record audio. If you're wandering around livestreaming and picking up conversations you're not a participant in, it's a violation of federal wiretapping laws.

Presumably, a person holding up a phone live-streaming would be party to the conversation.

If two people are talking at a party, and a third person obviously comes by within earshot, then the two people can either stop talking, or they can continue, but the third person is now party to the conversation.

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