Meetup photo disgust

[Doglover321]

I’m the Organizer of a popular Meetup group and we recently had our large 1 Year Anniversary event in a local pub. Ahead of the event, I decided to post that we will have a group photo at 8pm for anyone who wants to, and then went around and reminded members just before 8pm that we’re about to take our group photo and they can be in it if they want. There were about 50 of us in attendance, but I specifically remember speaking to two new members and asking them if they want to be in the group photo, to which they responded that they absolutely did. They are pictured in the photo smiling and posing!

HOWEVER, one of these new members has two months later changed her mind and been ordering that the photo is deleted and taken down from all platforms - including Meetup itself, that she didn’t consent, etc.

Where do I stand on this, please?! Don’t tell me I’m going to get them to fill in photo consent forms going forward?!?!

Can you just blur her out of the photo?

Can you just blur her face and reupload it?

Just blur her

there is a group called magic edits on Facebook, upload the photo to them and ask to remove her from it. They are really good at edits.

Tell her to FRO

I’m going to get them to fill in photo consent forms going forward

Even if someone consents in writing to have their photo shared, that consent can be withdrawn at any time.

I'd also go for blurring her out.

You can blur her photo yourself using an app on your phone.

Id probably do consent forms from now on just for the odd arsey one.

I'd blur her face just to irritate her though. But probably editing her out completely would be less inflammatory.

Maybe she consented to the photo but not to having it shared on social media, and maybe she only saw that it had been posted two weeks later. She might have a "good" reason to not want it on social media, like escaping domestic violence or something. I wouldn't automatically say "fuck right off" like a previous poster did...

Consent can be withdrawn and people can still ask to have their photos removed from all platforms at any time.

Just put an emoji over her face 😁

No expectation of privacy in a public place whatsoever. She has no "right" to have it removed.

Thanks all. She did mention it wasn’t a safety issue and that she just doesn’t like having her photo taken because then ‘anyone can get hold of it’. Not sure why she said yes to being in the photo then?! I would’ve been absolutely fine if she’d sat out. She also mentioned she’ll be attending our New Year’s Eve event and can I just crop her out?! Like no, just don’t get in the photo unless you actually want to be in it

Poo emoji over her face

She also has an issue with the event page for our NYE event even though only a quarter of her face is showing

I'd do that too.

Blur her out then, job done.

it's so easy to simply replace the photos with ones where you've blurred her face out.

Is she on the run? Seems quite paranoid.

Send it me.
I'll edit Jack Nicholson over her

Except if she's unhappy about having her photo up, uploading it somewhere else, probably with a much bigger audience (albeit to get her removed), won't help!

Some people are paranoid and fair enough but she'd be best off not being in any photos in the first place.

Exactly, I literally asked her ‘do you want to be in the group photo or not?’ To which she was like yes absolutely

It’s only two months later that she’s suddenly changed her mind. She even mentioned she told her marketing department at work and a pub is a private place and I will have needed her consent - but as far as I am aware I did obtain her consent?!

It is annoying but to be fair in the time it's taking you to write on this you could have put an emoji on her face and re-uploaded the edited version, so ...