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I am not a lawyer but I think it would be legally difficult to make it illegal to record what people say and do in public spaces. That was a right that the entire Western media depended on long before the Internet was invented.

The crux may be whether websites that require you to login to use them, like Facebook, are considered public or not. But anything you say or do in Facebook that you don’t restrict to being viewable only by 1st degree friends is probably considered public.




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