Going to be quite scant on details but…

I was out and about, and was messaged by two friends independently saying they were surprised to see me in a YouTube video.

Confused, I asked what they were on about. Turns out, a guy I gave advice to had then started recording me towards the end of our interaction without telling me, and has, weeks later, uploaded it as part of a longer video.

I was pretty tired at the time and doing the guy a favour (out of annoyance), and I don’t like a few things, one of those being that he put me online (which, within hours has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times).

What can I do? I have already messaged him to tell him to remove me, but this seems like a ridiculous invasion of privacy.

  • auzy@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Depends on the country and where it was recorded

    In a lot of places, it’s completely legal to record if he’s part of the conversation.

    If he was not, in many places it’s illegal

    If it’s a public place where there is no expectation of privacy, also possibly nothing you can do

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      10 days ago

      Recording and public dissemination of that recording through social networks are quite different concepts.