Filming people in public - when will the law catch up?

[Gough]

Not a lawyer but from what I remember you don’t really have any rights around being filmed in a public place

I think it depends on use, I think, you have certain rights if it's used in a commercial way. It's an American example but Spike Jonze had to get waivers from the people who appeared in Praise You and I assume if you did that sort of thing here you'd have to do similar.

 

[Gigantic]

They have been talking about this since 1890.

Here's the first mention of the concept of privacy in this sort of context in reference to photography: Warren and Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy"

 

[Nothing]

What are the rules when filming someone in public?

Social media users are increasingly filming supposed or real acts of kindness and pranks to post online, but what if the person being filmed doesn't want it shared?

www.abc.net.au

 

[Gigantic]

What are the rules when filming someone in public?

Social media users are increasingly filming supposed or real acts of kindness and pranks to post online, but what if the person being filmed doesn't want it shared?

www.abc.net.au

Pretty poor journalism.

According to Barbara McDonald, a professor at the University of Sydney Law School, there's no law against filming another person in public.

That's because there isn't a law in Australia that protects your privacy as an individual.

There are laws that protect your privacy as an individual, just not in a public place with respect to an individual filming another individual.

Probably paraphrased a quote from the professor and misconstrued the point.

 

[Cleavy]

My grandmother is quite ill at the moment. My uncle posted a photo of her on facebook, she's in her pyjamas and looking quite sick and miserable on the couch.

This is a woman who never left the house without full make up and dressed to the nines. I can't imagine she'd be happy with that photo being shared with hundreds of my uncle's FB friends, many of who know her.

Privacy has gone the way of the dodo. My question, broadly, is is there anything that can be done?

or worse, now that Facebook would own the photo since it was posted on their platform.

 

[Gameova_]

Big no no. I take pics in public and sometimes videos but always try to get anyone in the footage and if I see someone getting in the footage I put tbe camera down.

And no I don't post it on tiktok or any other social media site.

I wouldn't like someone recording me without my permission so try to do the same to others.

 

[Billy ray]

What if you cant see someone’s face?

No not upskirting. But if someone has a hilarious tshirt and you take sneaky photo but dont get face?

 

[craigos]

This stuff is creepy as hell. I'd chin anyone that did this to me. Should be looked at the same as we look at people filming women in bathrooms etc

 

[Cruyff14]

My grandmother is quite ill at the moment. My uncle posted a photo of her on facebook, she's in her pyjamas and looking quite sick and miserable on the couch.

This is a woman who never left the house without full make up and dressed to the nines. I can't imagine she'd be happy with that photo being shared with hundreds of my uncle's FB friends, many of who know her.

Privacy has gone the way of the dodo. My question, broadly, is is there anything that can be done?

People just need to be stop being so soft.

 

[Richard Cranium]

People just need to be stop being so soft.

Pretty s**t post.

 

[craigos]

People just need to be stop being so soft.

About being filmed in public without consent?

 

[Purple7x08_24]

I thought this was a breach of the surveillance devices act

Depends on the state, and the purpose. Some states like WA are more rigid. Each state has it's own set of rules.
Evidence would unlikely be admissible in court.

This is not actually in a public place. It's in a private mall.

 

[rank and file]

This from the local FB crime page in WA.
People always putting up pics of people stealing stuff.
Other people moaning "You can't post these images"



No pics are taken down.

 

[Nothing]

A shopping centre is considered a public place.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Tik Tok is intrinsic to the CCP's information gathering of personal data in the West.

 

[kickazz]

Tik Tok is intrinsic to the CCP's information gathering of personal data in the West.

IT's more than that - they control what and how things are shared too.

 

[kickazz]

Honestly who watches this s**t anyway? It's all so ******* banal.

 

[kickazz]

people who do this should be set on fire

With someone filming it and putting it on TikTok.

BigFooty. Delivering simple, elegant solutions to the modern world's complex problems.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

The Kalyn Ponga situation is an interesting one under the issue this thread is discussing

 

[Power Raid]

Honestly who watches this s*t anyway? It's all so ****** banal.

I have a 7 year old nephew staying with us and it's an eye opener as to what entertains kids these days.

Gone are the 70sand 80s of playing on the street. Instead he loves nothing more than youtube and other social media short videos, made by amateurs about something completely silly like "let's eat petrol station food for the day"

If he's happy and his screen time is low, we are all happy

 

[Gough]

I have a 7 year old nephew staying with us and it's an eye opener as to what entertains kids these days.

Gone are the 70sand 80s of playing on the street. Instead he loves nothing more than youtube and other social media short videos, made by amateurs about something completely silly like "let's eat petrol station food for the day"

If he's happy and his screen time is low, we are all happy

It was video nasties, heavy metal music and video games in the 80s that was stopping us from playing in the streets like our parents did and they were all soft anyway because they didn't spend their youth at war. People have probably been making versions of this argument for the past two hundred years.

 

[kickazz]

It was video nasties, heavy metal music and video games in the 80s that was stopping us from playing in the streets like our parents did and they were all soft anyway because they didn't spend their youth at war. People have probably been making versions of this argument for the past two hundred years.

Yeah there is a bit of that.

But I recon there is a shift now from DOING things (even if that is playing a computer game, watching a movie, etc) to watching other people do things, or even lamer, watching other people watching other people do things.

 

[Power Raid]

It was video nasties, heavy metal music and video games in the 80s that was stopping us from playing in the streets like our parents did and they were all soft anyway because they didn't spend their youth at war. People have probably been making versions of this argument for the past two hundred years.

You’re right things always change

But the modern lifestyle is a health risk and that’s hard to dismiss with “the back in my day” argument

 

[Gough]

Yeah there is a bit of that.

But I recon there is a shift now from DOING things (even if that is playing a computer game, watching a movie, etc) to watching other people do things, or even lamer, watching other people watching other people do things.

I've long held a theory that a lot of boomer men had fractious relationships with their fathers who could actually tell them how much harder they had it at their age and mean it and they in turn spend the rest of their lives trying, usually in vain to prove something to their dad to get his approval.

 

[Billy ray]

Yeah there is a bit of that.

But I recon there is a shift now from DOING things (even if that is playing a computer game, watching a movie, etc) to watching other people do things, or even lamer, watching other people watching other people do things.

Like watching pr0n