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I tend to blog about things that interest or annoy me. Usually both.
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Lights, camera, legal action
Can we please stop filming everyone without their consent?

A while ago, I wrote a blog post explaining why Ring doorbells are awful. If you haven’t seen it, do give it a read (it’s jolly good). Since then, our obsession with filming everyone that comes anywhere close to us has exploded, and we now feel compelled to capture footage of anyone who walks down a public street, enters a building, or drives a car on the same road as us.
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21 July 2025
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