Reply to post: Re: Just curious El Reg

How 'parasitic' Google's 'We're journalists!' court defence was stamped into oblivion

big_D Silver badge

Re: Just curious El Reg

Try living in Germany!

You get pictures of people being searched for by the police, in extreme circumstances. But as soon as they have been apprehended, the press cannot show their faces, so they are blurred out.

Even Anis Amri, over a year after his death, is still shown with a blurred out face, when something comes up in the news. Prisoners being shown on the news also have their faces blurred out - as do witnesses, ANY children on the news. Without a signed waiver, none of them can be shown on TV, only prominent people in the public eye (read z-list celebs and above) can be shown without blurring their faces.

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon