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.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    From what I understand EU law is pretty strict on the fact that they must obtain permission first. That may vary by country though.

    Edit: comments below are correct. I believe I’m thinking of businesses recording you which is part of EU law where personal conversations only seem to be addressed country by country if at all.