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If "against their will" means "without their consent", one might never again be able to post a picture taken in a public place where faces were identifiable in
by kixiQu 4y ago
If "against their will" means "without their consent", one might never again be able to post a picture taken in a public place where faces were identifiable in the background.
Ordinary photographs constitute ample and often accidental documentation of where people were at any given time. Even if you assume consent (which is a real unfair assumption where people don't even know about posts being made about them), this would suppress a lot of information that is very clearly in the public interest; if I can get posts taken down that document I was doing a bad thing in a particular place, I have a lot of power to suppress evidence of my malfeasance.
The US's legal framework here makes a lot of compromises that make a lot of people unhappy, but if you dig into it, you can see why it's complicated: reasonable-sounding policies work their way to unreasonable results in various subsets of cases.