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People filming you in public.
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Amazing how many people think "because its legal its okay".
Funnily enough people who use this excuse tend to be the ones that seem to have lots of problems with authority.
I don't like being filmed, or having my picture taken. I find it very intermediating. While I accept that you cant ask for permission from everyone when filming a crowd, most of the time permission should be sought.
I see that it is likely police will be required to film the public when speaking to them. I hope there is an option for them to turn the camera off.
Funnily enough people who use this excuse tend to be the ones that seem to have lots of problems with authority.
I don't like being filmed, or having my picture taken. I find it very intermediating. While I accept that you cant ask for permission from everyone when filming a crowd, most of the time permission should be sought.
I see that it is likely police will be required to film the public when speaking to them. I hope there is an option for them to turn the camera off.
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Don't go out in public then. Problem solved.
Do you dart from blackspot to blackspot to avoid the near blanket CCTV coverage too?
I hate having my photo taken or getting videoed even for the family/personal use I have 100's of photos of the family but not one of myself
Are there other people in any of them or do you clear the area?
Is there anything you do like?
But you are being filmed everyday you leave the house
Not necessarily.
If you were, say, in a shopping centre and you see a cameraman filming, you have to assume that the centre manager has given him permission to film any crowd on the premises of the shopping centre. This means the cameraman doesn't have to ask you for permission as it's already granted.
Likewise with public streets. In this case, you have to assume that the local council has granted the cameraman permission to film on a street where you see him filming. You can always call the council to check. It's likely that they're fine with it (providing that he's not verbally or physically harassing members of the public), even if they didn't grant permission in the first place.
I don't mind being caught on camera as someone's filming round their town or whatever, but I would mind a lot if they kept their camera pointed at me all the time in a sort of stalking way.
Secondly, I assume you have a computer and/or mobile phone. Everytime you search something on Google or whatever records are made of your IP address, cookies may be looked at to see what you've searched for previously and all manner of things. My phone, laptops, PCs and tablets are all synced up using Google Drive and Chrome. Around 3 or 4pm each afternoon I get a panel pop up with Google working out how long it will take me to drive home, offering me detours if it finds a different route to the usual one I take, and various other things. This means it knows where I am. On Chrome it knows some of my passwords, and all the websites I look at, but for added creepiness it alters my Chrome quickdial page depending on the time of day (so a site I look at during the day will appear, and then of an evening stuff like DS or wowhead appear). It actually scares me how much Google probably know about me.
If I was the OP I'd be scared about how much information about you your technology is handing over. These aren't just some photographs of you, they're your complete demographic profile as well as certain things you may look at as it's to do with your health or something private.
I won't get started on Facebook's attempts at psychological engineering either...
I must be in the background of tens of thousands of holiday snaps and films.
Have you considered speaking to a psychotherapist about your phobia?
Just until the suspect falls down the stairs a few times, then they can switch it back on
Not for the filming, although Esther Rantzen got nicked for "causing an obsruction"
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/11653164.Doctor_secretly_filmed_woman_in_York_city_centre/
But that's your problem not anyone else's.
So long as it isn't for malign purposes, I have no objection to strangers recording my image in the public arena should they be so inclined.
I agree. If I see them I'm likely to stick my tongue out at them though lol
That would probably qualify as a "quirky image" and ensure widespread distribution.