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?!?!

Don't bother stressing yourself out with consent forms and policing who gets in a photo. Just always blur her out going forward. Easy, no drama.

I'd put a clown face over hers.

As a former photographer what you typed is incorrect. The clause that must be included in your photo release is: "I hereby irrevocably authorize DebonDating to edit, alter, copy, exhibit, publish, post, display, or distribute these photos for any lawful purpose." Once you have that in there and they sign and date it, you are not obligated to do diddly squat if they complain.

PhotoShop is a wonderful tool. Just put a happy face emoji over her face and re-upload the photo.

I'm sure you can use Generative AI to swap her for David Hasselhoff

Have you asked her why she said yes and is now kicking off?

No consent is needed for photos in public places in the UK or to put them on social media.
In this case you did get consent even though it wasn't actually necessary. Tough luck for this person.

Personally I'd respond with you agreed so either you organise a way of blurring the pic and spend time doing it or tough....after all what can you do take me to court? Like he much and how long will that be? Complain to fb, no bother I just start another group and let everyone know via WhatsApp why...

I had something similar when I went to a 'Work Do' of DH's for someone who was leaving 2 years ago. There were 16 photos on my Facebook of the party - 21 people. This one woman - Caz - was on 8 of them, including 4 with all 21 people on. She was right in the middle.

She messaged me to say she was very unhappy with how she looked on the photos, and that I must take them down. (She is rather overweight and said she looked like a hippo on the pics.) I said I don't want to take them down really (8 of the 16 photos) as they are a good record of the party. She whined and moaned and got quite arsey.

So she wanted me to go onto the post and delete HALF of the 16 photos. Including all 4 with all 21 people on. 7 of those people weren't on any of the other 12 photos, so they would not have featured at all if I deleted all 4 of the 'group of 21' photos!

So I changed the audience on Facebook, and changed the privacy settings, so that the post with all 16 photos on was not visible to her.

I don't know if anyone else said anything to her, but she never came back to me, so she must have thought they were gone!

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Maybe that's for professional photographs.
Ordinary people in the UK don't need consent at all to take photos in public places and to use those photos.

@Doglover321 does she remember agreeing? I'm confused

There’s a difference between agreeing to be in a photo, and agreeing to a photo being posted on social media.

I don't think there is legally and it was pretty obvious that the photo might go on social media anyway.

I suppose she might have a problem with being seen on photos if she is getting stalked or something, but if so, she'd have been better to say so, as everyone would be sympathetic to that.

But in the case someone agreed via a model release form ie. staff photo used on printed promotional materials, there is no way of retrieving all copies. You can stop using but what already exists may not be easily retracted.

And both are irrelevant for a non-commercial picture taken in a public place.

Can you change the privacy settings on the photo to exclude her @Doglover321 ??? Put her on 'restricted friends' or something? So the photo is not visible to her?

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Agreed but OP keeps saying why did she agree to a photo if she didn’t mean it - not everyone automatically assumed photos are just for social media. You can have photos without needing to put them on social media.

Please do this 😂

Even if she opts out of OP's group photo, she could be caught in the background of photos taken by people in a different party, and never know it. In a public place, which a pub is, you can never be 100% sure of privacy.

Where did she think it was going to be posted?

I thought that too!

You can just take a photo and not put it on social media. Shocking I know!

Is she right in the middle or could you crop her out even if it means cropping a few others out? And just say the photo was too big. Putting an emoji over her face or blurring her out would just look weird in my opinion, like something passive aggressive someone would do after a falling out

There’s always one!

Yeah, obviously…however that would hold more weight if it was a photo of only a few, but she asked who wanted to be in the photo of the whole group..would you expect all 50 people in said group to take turns taking the group photo 50x so they all have a copy? Or just expect her to take a group photo of everyone and then be the only one to ever see it? Don’t be ridiculous.