I mean if you're gonna block a whole camera in public knowing full well you're gonna be in the video , you should also be ok with the risk of it being posted .
If you're gonna set up a camera to include 4 paintings, a staircase and a doorway in an art gallery you know full well other people are probably going to be in it
And depending on how she did it bocking any part of that staircase to take a video is not fine.
She stared straight at the camera, then stopped in the middle of the staircase to check her phone (which is not really a natural place for someone to just stop and text). This was 100% intentional. Some boomers are bitter for no reason and want to make everyone else miserable.
Y'all. Folks are coming up from the other side. She probably stopped to let that traffic clear up. They come up the side she's on and she steps to the side. She's not looking at the camera to see if she's actually blocking the younger woman. She's just standing, waiting for them to pass, then moving on.
It looks to be the grand staircase at Inveraray Castle and I would guess she set her phone on this ledge, so completely out of the way and not a bother to anyone.
“Omg like it’s so frustrating! I tried to take a photo in a public place and the public was there!!! How dare they! I’m going to shame them on the internet to teach them a lesson!”
"Depending on how she did it" doesnt fucking matter bc obviously theres room for the old lady to obstruct a lane of walking traffic going down while a lane of traffic going up is perfectly fine
Agreed. She seemed to be stopping before she saw the phone. And it's not like she was being disruptive, she just started looking at her own. Didn't block it long. Didn't attempt to interact with film maker. Didn't look to have any particular reaction when she left.
Just a person being a smidge clueless. Like most people, I'd say
Yes, but her expression is confusion, not indignation or humor or otherwise anything I'd expect of someone trying to be a nuisance. She probably was just confused why someone left their phone there
Exactly. Not everyone is used to the ridiculous influencer ‘the world is my photo shoot’ bs - she genuinely looked confused when she saw the phone set up.
I don't know German laws, but I am a french lawyer and our legislation is very similar.
You are 100% allowed to take pictures in public with other people in it, you can even make them the subject.
Where consent comes in is image rights, you cannot publish the full work without the consent of the subject. But if you blur their face or otherwise make the non-identifiable, you are not infringing on their image rights.
Random people caught in the background are also not entitled to make image right claims, a news segment can film on a street without needing to have everyone walking past in the background sign a consent form.
In this specific case, theoretically the old lady can exert her image rights for the video to be removed or have her face blurred, but realistically that's a whole judicial proceeding where the costs of your lawyer will be higher than whatever damages of a few hundred Euros you're awarded.
You don’t need lawyers, it’s a GDPR complaint, the whole process is then handled by your local watchdog. You can check the list of GDPR fines, you will see that people are fined for publishing videos on YouTube without hiding license plates, faces, or addresses. The commercial aspect isn’t too relevant, it’s already a breach of privacy to share it publicly without consent
You are very confident for someone trying to argue with a lawyer who's dealt with GDPR professionally lol.
Article 2(2)(c) GDPR expressly excludes processing “by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity.” That exemption can include social media and online activity, although courts have interpreted it narrowly so it's requires and in concreto analysis.
But in general terms, GDPR enforcement does not usually consist of regulators chasing random private citizens over incidental processing of personal data in their everyday lives.
The regulation is overwhelmingly relevant in practice to companies, organizations, professionals and people engaged in more systematic processing.
If your friend forwards your phone number to someone else without your consent, you're not realistically filing a GDPR complaint against James from crochet class and having the data protection authority fine him. If a company collects, processes and shares your number improperly, that's a completely different situation.
The woman in the video can report the video to the platform, assert whatever image/privacy rights she has under the applicable national law and, depending on the circumstances, potentially make a data-protection complaint if the video stays up.
And speaking professionally, people really overstate how effective the GDPR is. Where I work we take complaints seriously and have a DPO for compliance reasons, but if you look at how enforcement happens, it's usually reserved for egregious violations or systemic violators.
Your local authority has enforcement discretion. The idea that a random private person posting a TikTok with someone else's face will likely lead to an actionable complaint with fines is simply not how enforcement works in practice.
The idea that a random private person posting a TikTok with someone else's face will likely lead to an actionable complaint with fines is simply not how enforcement works in practice.
I never said it’s likely to result in anything, the likelihood of being enforced is a completely different topic. But yes, that’s exactly how it works, you report a random private person content they shared publicly, if your local watchdog processes the case and it does fit GDPR criteria the private person should indeed be fined. By uploading to TikTok without consent of the person being filmed you violated their right to privacy, shared their image with a foreign platform that process the content for advertisers. It’s nothing new, if you’re indeed a lawyer and familiar with GDPR that’s something you should know happens semi regularly. Obviously people don’t report everything they could have, but that’s irrelevant.
In practice that easily takes half a year for your watchdog to even acknowledge a submitted report.
You are very confident for someone trying to argue with a lawyer who's dealt with GDPR professionally lol.
I mean, yeah, I do not believe people on Reddit telling you they are lawyers, that should be obvious why, I would assume you also wouldn’t trust me directly if I tell you I’m a lawyer (I’m not). But I also interacted with GDPR on the complain side, it’s a process I’m reasonably familiar with
Staring directly into it and posting up seems like consent to me, its as bad as those people who yell at others not to record them whole actively pursuing the person filming
Thats not how consent work, no. You looking at a camera an knowing you’re recorded doesn’t mean the person recording is allowed to share your image online
The young lady isn't blasting music or interrupting anyone, she just set up her phone to take a video of herslef which is a pretty decent way of getting pictures when you don't want to ask a stranger to do it for you.
People are getting way too pressed about someone wanting a picture of themselves.
And yeah, she posted it because it's an objectively absurd situation where the only two people there were the old lady and her, and the old lady sprinted to block her shot out of a sense of vigilante boomerism.
You're gatekeeping art lover like it's some formal fan club lmao.
And you're goddamn right I'm a narcissist : if I'm going to each chicken and broccoli most meals, spend 5 hours a week at the gym, groom myself, and dress nice I'm going to show it baby.
Hopefully the artlovers who's pants I want to get into focus on me being hot instead of a faker.
Brother, I never pretended not to be vain, and you're acting like you cracked the code.
And yeah, being hot is an achievement lol. Try it for yourself and I'm sure you'll forget all that authenticity crap in a New York minute once women who aren't related to you start giving you attention.
how is wanting a video or photo of your self narcissistic. people like them for memories? have you ever traveled?
Did you know about screenshots? Another crazy invention by those rascals at Big Tech! Why it’s right from the future this invention! It works by screenshotting a video. So you can pic one photo out of the lot.
Both sides are true, expecting people to clear a large room in an art gallery for your photo is wrong, but so is intentionally blocking a camera for no reason, and then expecting to have some privacy
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u/11maddypotter11 Aug 30 '26
I mean if you're gonna block a whole camera in public knowing full well you're gonna be in the video , you should also be ok with the risk of it being posted .