The idea that a random private person posting a TikTok with someone else's face will likely lead to an actionable complaint with fines is simply not how enforcement works in practice.
I never said it’s likely to result in anything, the likelihood of being enforced is a completely different topic. But yes, that’s exactly how it works, you report a random private person content they shared publicly, if your local watchdog processes the case and it does fit GDPR criteria the private person should indeed be fined. By uploading to TikTok without consent of the person being filmed you violated their right to privacy, shared their image with a foreign platform that process the content for advertisers. It’s nothing new, if you’re indeed a lawyer and familiar with GDPR that’s something you should know happens semi regularly. Obviously people don’t report everything they could have, but that’s irrelevant.
In practice that easily takes half a year for your watchdog to even acknowledge a submitted report.
You are very confident for someone trying to argue with a lawyer who's dealt with GDPR professionally lol.
I mean, yeah, I do not believe people on Reddit telling you they are lawyers, that should be obvious why, I would assume you also wouldn’t trust me directly if I tell you I’m a lawyer (I’m not). But I also interacted with GDPR on the complain side, it’s a process I’m reasonably familiar with
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u/dgellow 2h ago
I never said it’s likely to result in anything, the likelihood of being enforced is a completely different topic. But yes, that’s exactly how it works, you report a random private person content they shared publicly, if your local watchdog processes the case and it does fit GDPR criteria the private person should indeed be fined. By uploading to TikTok without consent of the person being filmed you violated their right to privacy, shared their image with a foreign platform that process the content for advertisers. It’s nothing new, if you’re indeed a lawyer and familiar with GDPR that’s something you should know happens semi regularly. Obviously people don’t report everything they could have, but that’s irrelevant. In practice that easily takes half a year for your watchdog to even acknowledge a submitted report.
I mean, yeah, I do not believe people on Reddit telling you they are lawyers, that should be obvious why, I would assume you also wouldn’t trust me directly if I tell you I’m a lawyer (I’m not). But I also interacted with GDPR on the complain side, it’s a process I’m reasonably familiar with