Any audit watchers on u tube on here ?

That’s an interesting take I suppose. You’re sounding more like a journalist now tho.

you say we should expect privacy in a 4k world. Of course we should. We weren’t built to have constant contact, see ourselves from all angles and compare ourselves to millions of others. We were built to catch a fleeting glance in the lake that we met at most 100 people at. I hate the idea of being caught on film and posted on social media whether I’m having a moment of road rage or falling over on the ice/drinking too much. I see people making videos at my gym and if I thought I was in one id ask to be removed.

these people aren’t “auditors”. They’re cunts. Causing problems and acting the maggot to ensure everyone else follows the law or societies moral code while they refuse to themselves.

I thought this was going to be about internal audit and risk & control frameworks (disappointed now….)

He got arrested a few weeks ago for screaming at two girls who were snogging in the street. He deserved to be arrested. I don’t even think he’s necessarily homophobic, he’ll just do anything to try and get a reaction.

What are audit watchers on YouTube?

They like to test (audit) the police knowledge of the law. So for example will stand on a public pavement round the back of a police station filming the station and maybe the private carpark. Some police officer comes shooting out and demands to know what they’re doing and what their name is. Auditor will refuse to answer all questions as they know that legally unless the police officer has reasonable grounds to suspect a crime has been committed they have no right to insist on answers.

quite a few police balls up here. They tell the auditor they’re not allowed to film the private carpark even if they’re stood on the pavement, they threaten to take the camera or drone, they threaten to arrest the person on public order offences or terrorist charges. At this point the auditor believes they’ve failed the audit.

some have even been arrested and a police officer friend of mine always groans and says there was no grounds for arrest and if they chase for compensation they’d get it.

ive seen a few on TilTok and everyone of them have came across as odious little pricks.
The Manchester one mentioned previously especially. The amount of police time he must waste is incredible, always bleating about someone who has hurt his poor feelings

Okay, it sounds like we're all at cross purposes in terms of our understanding of the word

@Shudahaddogs you've told us who you are watching but not been terribly clear about what you're actually watching. Are you watching how land and industrial estates change?

That is very different to anything I thought auditors were doing.

so maybe it's the case that the nuisance auditors took their name from a less alarming form of filming activity?

BTW, have you considered addressing any misunderstandings? It seems more productive than just chucking out "do better" at people who genuinely don't understand what you're referring to.

Why? explain that properly because it doesn’t make sense. You’ve never seen these videos so @Greggsit is a psycho and needs to do better.

Its just total nonsense

Is that seriously it?

To give one example, some of them are filming what's going on outside asylum seeker hotels and some of them are actually walking into the hotels and harassing the staff and if they encounter any residents, those too

Regardless of what you think about asylum hotels, I don't think that's acceptable.

So dje media is a well known self described vlogger. He certainly does drone stuff, he also does general ambulance and police chasing.

Saw a video earlier today actually of the police arresting someone in Manchester City centre.

No word of a lie there were 40 -60 people crowding round the police in a circle. All with the phones out recording content for their social media while the guy was searched.

All desperate to get as close as possible and crowding the police, nearly touching them. Dje media was there, Charlie veitch and his bodyguard was there, dozens of sad wannabes were there.

'Auditing' as in enduring that public money isn't being wasted. We pay for the police, so we should be able to film them at all times, to make sure we get what we pay for. Is the thinking, and where the term comes from. It's nonsense obviously.

So if you're hit by a bus tomorrow, and you're lying in the street at your most vulnerable, covered in your own blood, semi conscious, delirious with pain, your clothes cut off so that defib pads can be attached; it's perfectly fine to film you and put it on YouTube, because of course the paramedics should be filmed? If you think that, you're a genuine sociopath.

I genuinely think you don’t understand the terminology you use.

An auditor is a vlogger, there are many different types of vloggers. They are blogging video content they’ve created of what they like to call audits. They’re vloggers. Not all vloggers are auditors but all auditors are vloggers (unless they do it for their own personal reasons and don’t make a video on social media about it). But seeing as we are talking YouTube I’m guessing we’re only talking about the ones who put their content on social media.

They DO have to deal with them though. When they are wandering about reception, getting in people’s way etc.

Even if all they do is stand there filming, it’s grim for my colleagues who have got to work all day on the front desk knowing they are being filmed and will be on you tube - without their consent. Why don’t auditors care about consent

A family member of mine was the “victim” of one. They had personal details published online and it caused a great deal of distress.

They are not “Auditors”, they are sad pathetic wankers trying to belittle people to make themselves feel important.

But why "auditors" what are they auditing?! I've only heard about it in a financial sense and that's clearly not what's happening here!

@FunMustard I haven't seen any of these auditors winding up the general public, but that's not the kind of thing I would look for

I don't know what the wind up merchants call themselves

I started seeing it - it being the term "auditors" - because I wanted to see live video of a particular protest, not far from me. The person live streaming it was calling himself an auditor and saying that he was streaming because he felt it would provide some accountability in the event of any police intervention.

Of course really what he means is he's doing it for clicks. But I did find it useful for various reasons.

I've heard of them - someone mentioned it to me just this week - but honestly even reading this thread I still feel mystified.

What's "auditing" got to do with winding up members of the general public? Is there something specific they're doing? I don't want to google and start getting videos for them tbh, sounds insufferable.

@Shudahaddogs thanks for the information about the supermarket

What about buses and trains, please? Is that classified as a public place for filming purposes?

Also based on some of your replies here –do you think it's okay to film the victim of an accident having treatment? Because it's happening in a public street?