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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 Pet_Ant »

> This is nonsense, for a number of reasons. Clearly, one should be able to exist in society, including going outside one’s own home, without needing to accept this kind of thing.

I think this is the rule that is currently under renegotiation in society. At one point you could imagine saying "I should be able to go out in public without having had a certain medical procedure (like a vaccine)." Now, I don't agree with that.

The overton window of behaviours is always shifting and not always in ways that we like.

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Post by carlosjobim »

justinclift wrote: post #252
carlosjobim wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A wedding is one of the most fundamentally public events that have ever existed. The purpose is so that as many people as possible should know that these people are taken. Asking guests to not take photos is such a faux pass that the couple has destroyed their reputation completely. They can have a quiet and private ceremony instead if they have stage fright.

> A wedding is one of the most fundamentally public events that have ever existed. Not sure why you think that? Although weddings can be in public places, they don't have to be and it's quite common for only invited guests (ie not the public) to be present.

It's still a public event even if everyone is not invited. English lacks the word to differentiate between "public" as "no secret, out in the open" and "public" as in "free for all and gratis".

In this case we're talking about a public wedding as opposed to a secret wedding.

Thus: A normal wedding with a normal amount of invited guests is one of the most non-secret events to exist.

Asking for no photos is like participating in a big sports event as an athlete and demanding nobody takes photos.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

parsimo2010 wrote: post #88

I don’t know about the UK, but in the USA the idea of “if you don’t want to be in photos published online, don’t be in public spaces” is pretty regularly upheld in courts. You don’t have an expectation of privacy in a public space. You might have some recourse if another person’s video singles you out, but just being one of the several people in an airsoft video, where your face is partially obscured anyway, isn’t mu…

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Post by scarface_74 »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #196
angiolillo wrote: post #176

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> just being seen in a small segment of a YouTube video with no name is a pretty minor risk It might become a slightly larger risk when image processing and face recognition get cheap enough that anyone can search to find every video/livestream/photo containing your face.

Yeah, it just happened to a woman I know recently. She took part in some naked protests like 20 years ago and photographs of them went up on various sites like Flickr from a host of different photographers and no one ever thought about it. Recently she was targeted in a revenge porn incident by someone who had used facial recognition search engines to gather dozens of nude photographs of her before distributing them…

You don’t need to find nude photos of anyone anymore if you want to do revenge porn. If you have any picture of someone there are “nudity sites” for years and years ago wasn’t there an open source one that was on GitHub? (please no one reply with the name - seriously - no need to give it any publicity on HN).

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Post by jon-wood »

greenavocado wrote: post #217
lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #214

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> People were pissed once they figured out that private conversations were uploading love to the internet. Audio is different from video. This is technically illegal, as consent is explicitly required in the law for audio recording.

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

And most states also allow you to leave a bar thirty seconds after your friend you arranged to meet there arrives, it would still be considered rude to do so and probably you wouldn’t be welcome in the future if you kept doing it.

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

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Post by SamPatt »

Unfortunately, being serious about privacy is socially damaging. I've experienced it.

I eventually accepted that being outside my home meant I gave up on my privacy. I still take it seriously in my home and online, but not in public.

I'd love to see the culture shift on this, but I won't hold my breath.

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

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Post by hdgvhicv »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #214
RajT88 wrote: post #160

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Agree. I went to a family gathering recently, and my wife's cousin was walking around live streaming. People were pissed once they figured out that private conversations were uploading live to the internet. The same guy did similar when his mom was on her death bed. Jesus Christ.

> People were pissed once they figured out that private conversations were uploading love to the internet. Audio is different from video. This is technically illegal, as consent is explicitly required in the law for audio recording.

Which jurisdiction are you taking? Japan? Christmas Island? Cuba?

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

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

hk__2 wrote: post #234
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…

> In many cases, people can request this footage through FOIA and use it as they wish, including uploading it to platforms like YouTube. Please don’t assume the world is limited to the US. In Europe you cannot do that.

When I worked for a us company, as a European, i filed a foia. And then a gdpr request from their eu branch. Both were successful- i corrected some information i knew to be incorrect, and there are now signs by each 'hidden' camera.
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