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can my image be recorded at British airports by tv crews even if I don't consent? (linux.community)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by vestmoria@linux.community to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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on youtube I watched a British reality show about airports and (mostly foreign) passengers being searched for anything illegal.

What I find troubling is that many of these passengers speak very little English and find it difficult to articulate an answer to what officers ask in English. I remember an Indian national who didn't speak any English that though he had the right visa to work in the UK, only to find he had been duped by an Indian scammer and was refused entry. He started crying and the crew filmed the whole scene.

This is humiliating to say the least and I wouldn't want this to happen to me if I visit the UK. My questions:

Should a reality crew start recording me, do I have a right to my image and can I tell them to stop recording me? Do tv crews respect that?
What about the police? Can they record my face, even if I don't consent?
I also have a cultural question: If an officer at a British airport asks you if he can search your luggage and you say no and you ask him if you are under arrest, what happens then?

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[–] NOSin@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

THEY BLEW UP A HOUSE ? AS A PRANK ?

What has humanity come to...

[–] snacks@feddit.uk 6 points 11 months ago

i can expand a little but you dont know who’s reading this now or in the future, so cant give many more details. The idea was, as the ‘mark’ leaves the building with the couple who are in on the gag the house collapses behind him. Unfortunately the company used explosives and fire rigs to make the thing fall to bits so it looked like it just blew up and just missed him. There’s more to it as well but the upshot is, its a terrible thing and ruined a guys life for some stupid tv show.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

I mean that's kind of awesome.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I note there are no details as to whether the property was structurally sound. It seems like it would be a lot for a prank show to buy a house someone could live in just to blow it up, rather than buying a condemned property and cleaning/fixing it up just enough to look livable to anyone not inspecting it too closely. Especially with housing prices the way they have been in the UK for the last 30-odd years.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social -1 points 11 months ago

It’s what Cotton would have wanted