The formal legal default in Germany is that it’s not allowed to make photos of people without their consent.
I find that unlikely because that would make most of street and news photography impossible. If, say, Der Spiegel publishes a photo of a protest somewhere in Germany, did it really get consent forms from all the people in the picture?
Consent doesn’t mean that you have to have a consent form. Most people have consensual sex without signing consent forms.
There are also a bunch of expectations. You can make photos of a protest to cover the protest.
In this case the question is whether a LW meetup is a public event or a private get together. Is a person who reads the annoucement supposed to have a reasonable expectation that his anonymity might get blown by attending the event?
Given the way the event was communicated I don’t think that’s the case. On the other hand if we would have sticker system to mark people who don’t want to appear on photos, not marking yourself as someone who doesn’t like to be photographed creates that expectation.
I find that unlikely because that would make most of street and news photography impossible. If, say, Der Spiegel publishes a photo of a protest somewhere in Germany, did it really get consent forms from all the people in the picture?
Consent doesn’t mean that you have to have a consent form. Most people have consensual sex without signing consent forms.
There are also a bunch of expectations. You can make photos of a protest to cover the protest.
In this case the question is whether a LW meetup is a public event or a private get together. Is a person who reads the annoucement supposed to have a reasonable expectation that his anonymity might get blown by attending the event?
Given the way the event was communicated I don’t think that’s the case. On the other hand if we would have sticker system to mark people who don’t want to appear on photos, not marking yourself as someone who doesn’t like to be photographed creates that expectation.