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What about public parks? Is it okay to walk around you while you’re having a conversation and record you, and then post that conversation on-line?

No, that would certainly not be okay. When I'm walking in a public park I have some expectation of privacy. If you're walking close to me when I'm having what is intended to be a private conversation, I might notice and pause.

You are conflating private and public conversations. When we're having a conversation in a public forum like this online, we are both posting it on-line already.

I hope archive.org posts another copy on-line so that if I want to refer to this later, after lemmy and the whole cargo-cult-deadend activitypub architecture has gone the way of the dodo, I will still be able to. And I hope they make it searchable!

Is it okay to use directional microphones to record you in such a setting?

Of course not. It's also not possible to be sure it isn't happening, but, if/when that is happening it is an unambiguous violation of social norms (and the law, in most places).

Doesn’t the whole recording-in-the-park thing from the Conversation give you the creeps?

Absolutely. (And now I'm wondering if you've noticed the reference to this film in my profile here or are bringing it up independently... 😀)

Are you saying that the fact that something is difficult to enforce against makes it okay to do, even if the person you do this to does not want it done?

Not at all. I think publicly archiving public web content is okay because I think it has a net public benefit. Better than okay, I think it is a good thing to do.

It is not because it is difficult to enforce against that I think it is okay. The fact that it is difficult to enforce against is why I think that it is not okay to give people who don't know any better the false impression that it is not difficult to enforce against.