Dilara was on her lunch break in the London store where she works when a tall man walked up to her and said: “I swear red hair means you’ve just been heartbroken.”
The man continued the conversation as they both got in a lift, and he asked Dilara for her phone number.
What Dilara did not realise was that the man was secretly filming her on his smart glasses - which look like normal eyewear but have a tiny camera which can record video.
The footage was then posted to TikTok, where it received 1.3m views. “I just wanted to cry,” Dilara, 21, told the BBC.
The man who filmed her, it turned out, had posted dozens of secretly filmed videos to TikTok, giving men tips on how to approach women.
Dilara also found out that her phone number was visible in the video. She then faced a wave of messages and calls.
In one of my earlier comments, I said:
In other words, I already distinguished between knowledge and consent because if I thought they were the same thing then it would have been redundant to mention both.
Anyway, you seem to be contradicting yourself. You’re basically saying you shouldn’t need someone’s consent to film them in public, but you can’t film them without they’re knowledge because it would mean you don’t have their informed consent? So you don’t need their consent, but you do?
Or are you just using this logical inconsistency to justify it when it doesn’t inconvenience anyone you care about, while still reserving enough room to condemn it when it inconveniences someone you do?
Single-party consent laws do not require the persons being recorded to have knowledge they’re being recorded. Hence, my criticism was of normalizing covert recording.
Adding a caveat that you don’t need consent to record someone, but you do need to inform them that they’re being recorded, doesn’t make any sense. Someone could stick a camera in your face and follow you around as long as they say “You’re being recorded.” People can’t just “walk away” under those circumstances, short of avoiding ever going out in public.
Also, saying she could have “altered the way in which she approached the interaction” sounds a lot like victim blaming. Just because someone doesn’t effectively respond to a situation does not imply they consent to it.