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Re:Ring used video captured on Halloween for PR by xmprt on Saturday November 02, 2019 @02:18AM (#21426184)
Even worse, while recording people in public is legal, I think there are specific protections for children under 13 which are the people featured in this Halloween video.
Re:Ring used video captured on Halloween for PR by kd5bjo on Saturday November 02, 2019 @03:34AM (#21426367)
Even for adults, there’s separate restrictions on publishing the video for commercial purposes than for recording it in the first place. I don’t think Ring’s TOS can protect them from claims from the people who aren’t Ring customers themselves.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_release

Re:Ring used video captured on Halloween for PR by ImaCake on Saturday November 02, 2019 @06:34AM (#21426902)
A science outreach job I had (in Australia) took special care to ask for consent for photos for their media page. If no consent forms were received, then they got a fluoro yellow sticker to wear so that photos were not taken. I was told that the reason for this is that some children are hidden from their bio-parents because said parents were bad people. We didn't want to risk the stalkers/bad parents from finding vulnerable children so no photos without a consent form.

I think this is the implication that should be considered in this situation and I think this makes Ring either very stupid or very greedy (or both).

Re:Ring used video captured on Halloween for PR by DanBC on Saturday November 02, 2019 @06:07AM (#21426804)
> while recording people in public is legal

...in the US.

In other places the laws can be different, especially if the camera hasn't been registered.