When is it okay to record someone?

Why'd You Push That Button?

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Society & Culture, Arts, Technology, Design

4.4 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes you see something happening out in the world, and you feel compelled to record it. You just have to capture it. Is that okay? Legally, are you allowed to record someone without their permission? And what happens if you go viral, then what? It’s murky territory, both legally and as human beings, but we’re going to tackle it on Why’d You Push That Button this week. On this episode, we talk to Porscha Coleman, who recorded an infamous Apple Store Vine, as well as Carlye Wisel, who was once fashion-shamed on Snapchat by a stranger. They have completely opposite beliefs on recording, and we love to facilitate a debate. Then we talk to a couple experts — Jennifer Ellis, a lawyer, and Katherine Cross, a sociologist — who help us figure out when we can record and why we feel like we have to capture other people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever taken a photo of someone you don't know in public?
0:03.0	I've taken pictures of people and posted them on Snapchat before.
0:06.0	I would lie to you if I say I haven't done it.
0:08.0	And I would just like throw it in a group chat and stuff just for internal laughter and stuff with friends.
0:12.0	There was this guy who apparently took a picture of me and my boyfriend and put it on his timeline.
0:17.0	If I see someone and I really like their outfit, I'll take a picture of them. People of
0:21.0	Walmart was a really funny blog for a while. I saw a guy smoking a cigarette once on the subway
0:25.6	with like the door open. I was like, I have to take a video of this. No one is going to believe
0:29.4	me. Hello, welcome to Why'd You Push That Button, a show where Ashley Carmen, hello,
0:35.3	and Caitlin Tiffany, that's me, examine the choices technology forces
0:39.3	us to make. Today, we're talking about why you take a photo or record a stranger in public.
0:47.4	Yep. Why do you do it? Viral content always calls. Are you a bad person for doing it?
0:53.6	This is the key cue.
0:56.5	And I think this episode came about because, I mean, I really didn't want to do a
1:00.8	Plain Bay episode, but then Plain Bay just imploded and we had to talk about Plain Bay.
1:06.4	I'm going to be honest with you.
1:07.6	I missed Plain Bay because this is when I was working at a now defunct feminist media startup.
1:13.2	Where the Internet doesn't exist.
1:14.9	Mostly doing event planning.
1:17.0	I'm not sure how that happened.
1:18.5	So I kind of missed Plain Bay.
1:20.1	If you want to take me through the paces a little bit.
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