Peoples Faces The Law? (help Please)

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I saw a video the other day - actually I couldn't watch it all, it made me want to punch the guy filming - where the vlogger wanted to see people's reactions by just walking up to them with his camera and filming them without saying anything. His point was that under US law, you have no privacy in public.

What the douchebag didn't understand was that sticking a camera right in someone's face who is just going about their normal daily life and not doing anything interesting is not only what they perceive as an extreme invasion of their privacy, it was a massive invasion of their personal space.

If he'd done that to me - and he was inches away from people and I can't believe how restrained some of them were - I'd have grabbed his camera and smashed the thing or taken the SD card and destroyed it. Filming your own travels where you have natural interactions with other people is one thing, but forcing reactions by being a complete tosser to others is something that will lead to huge pain eventually. And rightly.

That's really shitty. He should have at least said what he was doing and actively asked people if they felt uncomfortable and have a conversation about it. The reason the paparazzi exist is because people aren't legally allowed to assault someone who gets in their face with a camera. Even just destroying the camera can be considered assault and destruction of property, so it's really shitty that people can do this kind of menacing predatory behavior and the victim has no recourse.