for any purpose whatsoever.”A Toronto user of the reddit social media website was walking through Chinatown when he spotted people filming on a sidewalk. “You should have no expectation of privacy in a public area. “Once you film something that’s available to a larger audience, you need consent,” said Victoria Novak, a Toronto-based media and entertainment lawyer. There are things, however, to be careful of when putting up such public notices of consent, said Nick Poon, a Toronto privacy lawyer. And no one, said Poon, can be excluded from a public area.

Source: thestar November 11, 2017 01:41 UTC