burning man & privacy

An interesting lawsuit has emerged. Burning Man folks are suing a company called Voyeur Video for selling videos of naked women at Burning Man. It’s not just my love of BM that makes this interesting, but what it means to be in public/private. Here’s a big big festival on public land run by a private organization with explicit rules that all videos must be registered. CNN and MTV have been banned year after year. Yet, this company took lots of images and are selling them, without the permission of the subjects. Is this a public space? A private space? I can’t help but think about what this might mean for general recording and selling of data…

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