Taking a video at the park
You’re casually sitting on a bench in the park and suddenly something scary or interesting takes place. What not record it on camera to share it with your friends? Well, for starters, because you don’t have the right to.
“People take videos all the time these days and routinely include strangers or unsuspecting people in the content, but if you live in a ‘two-party’ state you must have permission to record a conversation or else you could be sued, even if the recording was inadvertent,” explains Thomas J. Simeone, lawyer with Simeone & Miller, LLP, in Washington D.C. “This includes not only videos taken in public, but also security camera [footage].”
What you can do instead: Don’t make any videos that include other people you don’t know (this can be hard). If you do have to record something that includes bystanders, ask for permission.
