Friday was a slow day at 10Box. The forecast was for severe storms between 1:00 and 7:00. I checked the futurecast, and went early, around 2:30. The schools had let out early at 2:00. Not many people were in the store.
As I made my selections at the lottery machines up front, I heard the cashiers talking amongst themselves. It seems that they were perturbed about a customer who films them on her phone. She's apparently the friend of one of the workers. I've seen them together at the lottery machines before. I won't use that gal's real name. She's always been nice to me.
"It's Sadie's friend."
"Lottery Sadie?"
"Yeah. That friend of hers who's always in here buying tickets. Now when she goes through the line, she turns and says, 'Bye, guys!' And she takes video of it! Like this!" The cashier with the multi-colored hair acted it out.
"I don't like that! I don't agree to be on your live-stream! Whatever she uses it for. Some people do that, you know. They're on the internet all day long!"
"I never signed anything saying I agreed to be on her livestream!"
"I know! Has anybody mentioned it to Sadie?"
"Sadie knows!"
"I'm going to have to say something. I don't consent!"
Well. It's clear how they feel about it. I don't think they have any recourse. They are in a public place. I don't think they have a right to privacy there. I can understand how it makes them uncomfortable. But it's not like they are secretly being recorded in their own home.
2 comments:
I wouldn't like that either. If I take a photo in a public place I ask first and I NEVER take video. That's unacceptable.
River,
Yes. Even though it's in public, these gals shouldn't be streamed on the internet without their permission. They're just doing their job, and not anything wrong. I block out license plates when I take pictures, UNLESS it's those scofflaws parked in the handicap spaces without legal plates or placards.
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