Recording here refers to the act of taking pictures or the visual aspects of filming.

In the US, as well as some countries in Europe where you don’t need consent to record a person in a public place, it is often argued that there’s no “reasonable expectation of privacy in a public space”.

In some jurisdictions, exceptions to the requirement of consent to publish include the type of person in question (for instance, persons of interest are often exempt from strict data protections) or whether or not the publication of the recordings is in the interest of the public (for example when an offence has been committed).

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