Update - TV company fined over secret filming of pregnant women at risk of stillbirth

[SorryAuntLydia]

Previous thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3100028-To-think-pregnant-women-shouldnt-be-filmed-during-scans-without-expressly-giving-consent?pg=4

News of fine
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-47881898

AIBU to think the TV company should just suck it up, pay the fine and not appeal?
AIBU to be shocked that there doesn’t appear to be any consequences for Addenbrookes management’s poor judgement?

[53rdWay]

Bloody hell, that’s appalling. YANBU at all.

[NicoAndTheNiners]

Don't know what the Rosie were thinking.

I always think this about 24 hours in a&e with the unconscious people. Fair enough the people in the tv programme have consented afterwards but I guess there's a lot of people who don't give their consent who aren't very happy that they've been filmed.

[CannotBeBothered01]

The fine was reduced to £20k on appeal
www.5rb.com/case/true-vision-productions-ltd-v-information-commissioner/

[FluffMagnet]

God almighty, I've always held the Rosie in high regard. I guess the TV crew are arguing because they want to do it in the future. I'm nearing the end of my second pregnancy, and this is going to leave me quite nervous and on guard every time I enter the hospital now. I find all the medical real life programmes problematic and such an invasion of privacy that I struggle to see how they are legal even if they are deleted without being viewed by a human.

[PrincessNutella]

Shameful violation of privacy and complete lack of respect.

[MojoJojo71]

That’s terrible. I can’t believe that the staff agreed to that. I’m a midwife sonographer and would absolutely refuse to work with a television camera in the room, it’s an unforgivable breach of privacy at what is one of the most vulnerable and possibly the most devastating moment of that woman’s life. They should be ashamed of themselves.

[Twitchynose]

To be honest I’m more appalled that the hospital trust allowed it. The media I expect to do immoral things, the hospital to violate privacy like that I don’t expect. The CQC ought to rip the apart for that to set an example.