I'd start videoing them back and ask them what they were doing.. if they ran or didn't delete the footage I would give my video top the police.. there's a difference between being in the background of something and being the subject...

Im throwing hands idc.

I can think of situations where i would care and situations when i couldn't care. If my 3 year old is in public being the little songbird that he is and is singing his favorite Beatles song at the top of his lungs and some stranger started to record it because this is clearly cute/ funny then i probably wouldn't make a fuss. But if a stranger was recording him for zero apparent reason to me, my first thought would be, "this person is a predator and i need to call the cops". I would likely call the cops without warning to the offender.

If it was clear they were taking photos or videos just of my child (and it wasn’t my kid in the background just by chance) I would definitely confront them and ask them to delete the photos because it’s just plain creepy to take pictures of kids you don’t know.. I would assume the worst and act accordingly. If it was another parent with their child and my child was playing with theirs or by theirs I wouldn’t be bothered by it

This topic brings out the creepy people who live their lives through Facebook. So many people defended not censoring the kids in the background of photos it was insane. I even mentioned how some people are running from domestic violence and don’t want to be tracked down and SO MANY PEOPLE here said “not my problem, homeschool if it’s that bad”So yeah if I came across one of those in public taking photos of my kid to post online and tag and be a weirdo, it’s going to be bad thanks to this app

Nothing to be done if your in public. You can ask them to delete it but they aren’t legally obligated to.

Pick up my kid and walk away. Call the non emergency line and let them know that and someone is INTENTIONALLY taking pictures of random children in parks.

I would scoop up my child, and start videoing them, whilst asking them what their intentions were. Confronting someone definitely isn’t always safe though. If there were plenty of other people around to witness I wouldn’t be scared to ask, but say they were the only ones there, I wouldn’t risk my safety or my child’s. I would just contact police with the proof.

It’s the teacher in me but when we got to events with other kids I will go out of my way to make sure it’s taken at an angle without other children in it. It would bother me but I wouldn’t say anything to someone who took a picture of my kid unless I felt they were clearly trying to take a picture of just him. Too much trafficking, social media exposure, and data sharing happening at the moment for me. I completely see why someone would be upset 🤷‍♀️ Would I really throw a fit about it? No. If a parent came to me and was bothered enough to ask me to delete it, I absolutely would. If it was that big of a deal where they wanted it deleted and I wanted the picture of my kid, I would edit it in front of them and delete the original so they could see me doing it. Why do we have to take sides on everything?

Wow. Y'all are something. If I'm videoing, or taking pictures, of MY kids and your kid somehow ends up in the picture and you come over and demand that I delete lictures/videos of MY kids there will be problems.