Women ‘feel unsafe’ after being secretly filmed on nights out in North West
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68826423
by Glanza
Women ‘feel unsafe’ after being secretly filmed on nights out in North West
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68826423
by Glanza
34 comments
I’ve seen these videos. It feels creepy. But
> Police say they are now actively trying to catch the person making the videos.
For what? Videoing in a public place and putting it online?
Unfortunately for these women there is no right to privacy in a public space, if we knee jerked a proposal to ban photography in public it would be detrimental to the freedom of the press.
I know I’m going to be downvoted to oblivion for this last part. But have the women tried not to get so blindingly drunk that they aren’t flashing their underwear or worse everywhere or causing such a scene that people are willing to watch this crap?
“I didn’t see him, I didn’t know I was being recorded,” she said.
GMP said although it is not illegal to film people in public, if the action is causing distress or harassment it could be considered criminal.
Brace yourself for the influx of auditor videos getting the reaction they want peeps.
Interesting they are trying to identify them in the act of filming, rather than pursuing the account holder through the video platforms
The worst part of this seems to be the grim comment sections, surprised they aren’t working backwards from that
Scum like this and so called “Auditors” will keep doing this until they force a change in the law that won’t necessarily be in our overall best interests.
I’m aware this isn’t remotely a solution but please consider not consuming their content.
This is the type of crime GMP love, they can sit a desk sergeant on it and reap all the publicity rewards. I had my motorcycle stolen and they didn’t even bother to send an officer to the collect to CCTV!
I never understood these creepy fucks filming everyone on a night out and im a dude. None of these douches ever go out themselves to have a good time but to get their jollies off from others having a good time. Sad shit
If you look these videos up, it’s obvious that in many of them the person’s using a hidden camera to record women. In a few of them, they’re basically following them around, or hovering around them to catch all angles.
It’s not just someone plopping a camera in the middle of the street and recording what goes on, making it obvious to everyone that they’re being filmed.
They’re undeniably creepy and let’s not sugercoat it fellas, we all know why the person’s doing it. So, it’s not just some innocent “oh, just happened to be filming them” thing, is it? And it’s not just some innocent viewing experience for a fella either, is it?
Daily mail have done this for years
Articles from different cities which they photo women during freshers week or at Christmas.
Is really fucking creepy
What the fuck is this comment section?
Women are being filmed without their consent, and being put into compilations online for other creeps to watch, it’s fucking disgusting. This isn’t just one video either, it’s an account with hundreds of them.
Have a bit of empathy, think how you’d feel if it was you or your girlfriend/daughter/sister.
I get why people are upset, but what law would you propose to stop this? We can’t make filming in a public space illegal as CCTV cameras and dashcams etc would no longer be allowed
This is undoubtedly creepy and unwanted behaviour. It might be a struggle to prove it to be criminal though, as grim as it is.
I see the ‘what about men’ brigade are out in full force.
I see these videos on Facebook. It’s always filled with 1000s of comments from poor countries with terrible English either praising or condemning the women for what they wear.
I mean, yeah they’re super creepy, but I really don’t see what can be done about it without banning filming in public, which is obviously a terrible idea.
Lots of people saying it isn’t illegal but I see no issue with the police finding someone who is persistently doing this creepy shit and putting it online and telling them to knock it off. It seems like harassment to me.
I stumbled across this on Instagram, because I commented that it seems very creepy secretly filming young drunk girls on nights out the IG algorithm has decided as I commented I must be into it and now I see it every other day.
There’s a guy I came across on tiktok. He walks around nashville USA on a Friday Saturday night live streaming the streets
He showed his set up and he’s got huge signs saying live streaming on tiktok etc and apparently he’s quite big there in nashville so people always coming up and saying hello, cops give improtu interviews about how the night is going.
If it was done openly like this people wouldn’t mind
But this is clearly some kinda voyeurism going on. Yes it’s a public place but there’s a rather nasty perverted angle to it.
Can we all agree to batter fuck out the creepy bastards if we see this happen? Yes? Good.
Imagine this is your girlfriend, sister, daughter.
This is why the world was so much better pre-internet and social media.
You could enjoy a night out and not worry about someone filming you to put online for men to masturbate and comment hateful shit about you.
Now we have a whole bunch of weirdos and perverts justifying why it’s fine to do this and blame the women for leaving the house
There’s tiktoks in Arabic reposting this content and telling people to come to the UK. Genuinely.
There are 1000s of CCTV cameras all over the place, the issue here isn’t the recording, it’s the posting to YouTube.
The women: we don’t want to be filmed and judged without our consent
The BBC: here is the footage those women are talking about
Literally reported one account on 16/4 for this on insta, they still haven’t acknowledged the report. One video had 5m views on 16/4, just checked and it’s now up to 6m. It genuinely is unsettling and disturbing
what laws does this break exactly? It’s creepy but you cannot expect privacy in public.
Could’ve sworn I saw a video of the guy doing this getting chased out of town by a mob who realised who he was
To all the weirdos defending this, you’re either a creep or a creep jacking off to this in your mums basement who wants this to continue.
A person secretly filming and following drunk girls on a night out who then goes home and spends hours editing the footage to post online is not ok.
Filming/peeping is the first marker of someone doing something a LOT more significant.
There’s a difference between me filming or photographing in Soho central London & picking up members of public by mistake & me following drunk girls to put video of them on the Internet.
It starts with using “the right to take video in public spaces” (something I agree with) as an excuse to be a creep & then moves onto more and more extreme behaviour.
“Well it is OK for me to film her because she’s drunk ”
“well it’s OK for me to film her because her dress is short & she’s drunk ”
“well it’s ok for me to go upto her because she’s drunk & ask her for her number & get abusive when she says no ”
“well it’s ok for me to hit her because she’s drunk and refused to give me her number ”
Before the”not all men” pricks jump in on this….WHY are these pricks videoing women like this? It MAY be not all men but EVERY woman I know whether out drinking or not has been approached & threatened, with at least 1 attacked on a bus.
It MAY not be ALL men, but it’s enough for EVERY WOMAN to have been harassed.
Maybe it can apply to the media too, cos everytime there’s a report on obesity it’s backed up with footage of fat bellies and backsides walking down the high street, although whether or not permission is gained or it’s a set up isn’t clear. I’d expect the people would recognise themselves even if no faces shown
I’ve seen these videos and always fascinating how different the reactions are from different communities. On Twitter you see African American women mesmerised by how beautiful and stylish the women all look. Then you got the faceless incel profiles slut shaming them.
Nobody is saying that these women expect full privacy. I’m a big fan of those walking videos on YouTube which allow someone like myself to see different parts of the world. That said, there’s a huge difference between filming a street where you just happen to catch people walking past you – the camera is focused on the street and landmarks, etc. On the flip side, some of these videos intentionally focus on individuals instead of the surrounding areas. That’s what I find creepy.
I’ve seen videos like these on instagram pages promoting to middle eastern men why the UK is great for them
Some right old weirdos in this thread trying to defend this or play ‘devils advocate’. Absolutely no defending this type of behaviour, whether it’s ‘illegal’ or not.