Staff Reporter
SHARING recordings of drunk people online could have legal consequences in Spain, even if the videos were taken in public.
That’s according to the Andalusian Audiovisual Council (CAA), which has warned that publishing such videos of anonymous people who are intoxicated, and without their prior consent, could violate laws covering privacy, personal image and honour.
The warning could mean the end to the widespread use of hashtags such as #papagorda, which became popular during the Feria de Sevilla in 2019 and is used to tag videos of drunk people at the famous yearly celebrations.
The CAA warned, according to website Andalucia Informacion, that the spread of such videos has become even more widespread due to the proliferation of social media sites, which have caused a ‘multiplying effect’.
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According to the CAA, videos tagged with #papagorda have been viewed a total of 74 million times, making the hashtag the 16th-most-viewed of all time.
The CAA also warned that fines have already been levied on those who record people without their consent, even if they are far away and have not interacted with them.
In 2022, Spain’s AEDP data protection agency levied a fine of €10,000 after a video went massively viral of a drunk person in the street.
