>We don’t need to see the officers’ unblurred faces to confirm that these were successfully extracted from a random eBay purchase
This feels like bootlicking. Officers are legally allowed to be filmed while doing their job. It may not be relevant to the story, but its irrelevant to blur them at all.
>We don’t need to see the exterior shot of someone random person’s house, because that could result in their location being identified and the press mobbing them pointlessly.
Sorry but this too is considered public photography. photos of a persons house exist on google maps and generally across the internet as a whole.
>We do need to see the safe interior shot of someone’s house, that doesn’t reveal any identifying information, since that protects their identity while supporting the story at hand.
Nope, not at all. You generally cannot just film a private home or business, and police filming a home is a pretty shady area for anything but the purportedly advertised use for a bodycam. the TV show COPS learned the hard way that just because the police can enter a home, doesnt mean you get to film it without permission or consent. places like Disneyland and concert halls routinely have legal standing to enforce a restriction on flash photography as it is again, private property.
This feels like bootlicking. Officers are legally allowed to be filmed while doing their job. It may not be relevant to the story, but its irrelevant to blur them at all.
>We don’t need to see the exterior shot of someone random person’s house, because that could result in their location being identified and the press mobbing them pointlessly.
Sorry but this too is considered public photography. photos of a persons house exist on google maps and generally across the internet as a whole.
>We do need to see the safe interior shot of someone’s house, that doesn’t reveal any identifying information, since that protects their identity while supporting the story at hand.
Nope, not at all. You generally cannot just film a private home or business, and police filming a home is a pretty shady area for anything but the purportedly advertised use for a bodycam. the TV show COPS learned the hard way that just because the police can enter a home, doesnt mean you get to film it without permission or consent. places like Disneyland and concert halls routinely have legal standing to enforce a restriction on flash photography as it is again, private property.