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How is the topic of "well people are okay with this totally separate usage" such an issue? Obviously how an image is used matters. If you take a photo with a ca

How is the topic of "well people are okay with this totally separate usage" such an issue? Obviously how an image is used matters. If you take a photo with a camera that automatically deletes it immediately, nobody cares. It's not the act of taking a photo that people care about, it's what you do with the picture afterwards. That's why consent is great. One person might think the photo of them in a bathing suit that you want to put on your instagram is creepy and another might be fine. Letting the subject decide is a great way to avoid the issue.

chmod600 5y ago
How do you get consent for a photo of a crowd?
- dheera 5y ago
  Exactly, you generally don't. People tend not to care if they're in some picture with a hundred other random people.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
  I'm trying to arguing that a one size fits all approach doesn't work, because end use matters. So this question is more specific than I think is productive. But to answer it anyways, I'd say that for security tape you don't need it, but if you want to put it on the front page of your website, maybe you blur the identifying features of the people whose consent you haven't gotten and get consent of everyone else? Or just keep it low res enough that it's blurred by default. Or just don't use it that way. The point is that there are options, and they aren't one-size-fits-all.
dan_mctree 5y ago
> If you take a photo with a camera that automatically deletes it immediately, nobody cares. It's not the act of taking a photo that people care about, If people are jumping in front of me paparazzi-style, pushing, gaping, pointing, flashing their cameras, I'd be bothered whether the camera deletes the image or not. I wouldn't even know whether it does. For me the act of photo taking, the unexpected attention in a public space is a bigger deal than the picture. Luckily, I'm not interesting enough

chmod600 5y ago

How do you get consent for a photo of a crowd?

dheera 5y ago
Exactly, you generally don't. People tend not to care if they're in some picture with a hundred other random people.
6gvONxR4sf7o 5y ago
I'm trying to arguing that a one size fits all approach doesn't work, because end use matters. So this question is more specific than I think is productive. But to answer it anyways, I'd say that for security tape you don't need it, but if you want to put it on the front page of your website, maybe you blur the identifying features of the people whose consent you haven't gotten and get consent of everyone else? Or just keep it low res enough that it's blurred by default. Or just don't use it that way. The point is that there are options, and they aren't one-size-fits-all.

dan_mctree 5y ago

> If you take a photo with a camera that automatically deletes it immediately, nobody cares. It's not the act of taking a photo that people care about, If people are jumping in front of me paparazzi-style, pushing, gaping, pointing, flashing their cameras, I'd be bothered whether the camera deletes the image or not. I wouldn't even know whether it does. For me the act of photo taking, the unexpected attention in a public space is a bigger deal than the picture. Luckily, I'm not interesting enough