Blanking Out Faces

[smurfchops]

Can't be bothered to watch mostly on C5, all the Police programmes, Shoplifting, etc.  what is the point when they blank out everyone's faces.  Too much wokery and human rights in this country. It's all gone to pot.  Switch channels. 

[Atheist]

smurf; Would you want your face to be put on telly if you were filmed in your corner shop while a robbery was going on? Suppose the villains decided to rub you out as a witness because they'd seen you?

[roopower]

I watch a lot of these programmes and suspect that faces are pixelated out because the people have not been proven to be guilty. Also some are innocents who have been caught up in an incident. Sometimes faces of police are blanked too, perhaps they take part in special ops. I don't  think wokery comes into it at all. 

[andy-hughes]

People on those shows are pixilated for two reasons. 

Some officers prefer, or need for operational reasons, be anonymous.

Members of the public, who may get convicted, are innocent at the time of filming, and are entitled to anonymity if they request it.

[andy-hughes]

I cross-posted with roo, who sees it exactly as I do.

[roopower]

Great minds think alike andy..... no need to complete the saying! 

[ToraToraTora]

I watch "the Motorway" last night about the traffic wombles and some of the public were pixelated and some not. From that I deduced that they were asked if they wanted their boat on TV or not.

[THECORBYLOON]

SMURF, does it matter what like they look?

[barry1010]

Some years ago I watched a couple of episodes of a programme about bailiffs.  Can't Pay, We'll Take it Away.

It was quite distressing to see an elderly couple being evicted because the landlord was selling up.  The council wouldn't help them until they were evicted and had told them to stay put.  They were shown on TV in extreme distress.  Horrible.

Another person who had been shown on the series sued the production company successfully and since then more programmes are blurring out faces.

Rightly so

 

[DarceyK123]

I always want to know what they look like! 

As Corby says, why does it matter? Its doesn't really, but suppose im just nosey.

[Canary42]

I think that if you were a battered wife for example, you might have more sympathy with the wish for pixellation, with a vicious swine trying to find you.  

Just one example, there are others of course.

[DarceyK123]

I agree to pixelating where there is a victim involved,

But some cases like in the Police Interceptors,  guy is filmed doing 100mph and crashing into cars (for example) is automatically guilty so why cant they shame him?

[smurfchops]

Thank you Darcey.

[Peter Pedant]

I am not sure if automatically guilty is a category in English Law.

It is clearly lawful to video the public in public without permit and has been done so for years - despite a lot of squawking from the subject

there is a lot of gold plating - getting a rule and making it up further so you cant do this and cant do that. When you can. And this even occurs, readers, on AB - incredz huh.

the current one is in Wales, when the police were er "looking" for the 4 boys from Shrewsbury, and asked for social media silence

NOW if they had allowed yakking ( and by god, ABers can yak, sir) - then the road they were found on, may have been searched more carefully by passers-by and the bodies found sooner

I am not the first to note this

This post is not too 'rich' ( detailed, brainy even) for AB is it?