Re:Stop Filming Strangers in 2023
by ghaff on Sunday January 08, 2023 @04:37PM
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Yet how many millions of Europeans in countries with laws of this sort have appeared on Instagram, Flickr, TikTok, etc.? It may be technically the case but essentially no one worries about it--even those who aren't going to shove a camera in someone's face.
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what do you mean? I doubt this law in Germany is broken very much. Entities care a lot about it.
Entities, i.e. companies, are pretty careful everywhere about publishing photos of people for marketing purposes (which any website is) without permission of some sort. Whether it's in the terms of attending an event or it's a stock photo which presumably has a release form. I doubt individuals in Germany are much less indiscriminate about sharing on Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, and elsewhere than they are most places. And German law has very little teeth if the people doing the sharing aren't German.