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by ixsploit 261 days ago
Or you know, not making it public.

And if you might need to make the photo public, you could blur the faces.

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And your want to make that the law, so you get fined or go to jail if you don't blur everyone's face on every photo you post if you haven't gotten a signed consent from them?
OP didn’t respect his fellow hobbyists by asking them to not film him. Why should OP expect respect in return?
For me not necessarily, I would like a mechanism for distinction and a culture where you respect people you record.
Yes.
Well, thanks for being honest.

That's not a world I would want to live in, and I guess I'm thankful most other people don't either.

The ability to photograph is important for accountability and truth in a democracy, it's important to families wanting to document and share their trips easily, and it's important for art, among many other things. Fundamentally, it feels like a kind of freedom to me.

But it's interesting to see there are people who disagree.

What part of those requires posting my unblurred face online?
Why should I legally be required to do that, and go to jail if I don't? What makes it so important you think it should be criminal not to?
I think you should be fined for posting pictures of people publicly without their consent.

None of those things require you to invade their privacy and enjoyment of public space — you’re just negatively impacting them because you’re lazy and antisocial.

Fines are how we handle such nuisances in other cases.

You can do all of those things without creating a public record of me.
What if I can't?

What if you're in the photo? What if you're doing something newsworthy? Or what if you're right behind the person doing something newsworthy?

> What if you're in the photo?

Blur that region before posting it with an algorithm that can't be reversed. The camera app could even do this automatically.

> What if you're doing something newsworthy?

Every good rule has some exceptions.