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For "content".
Because creeps can stalk and harass you online.
There's a video on YouTube of a guy counting to 100,000. That's it. Simply counting out loud in a droning voice. It has over 33 million views. What's the appeal of that?
Sure, but the store isn't posting those videos on social media for people to comment on. If they were, they'd probably get sued, and for good reason.
I mean, the rest of your comment aside, this isn’t the case. You are in public. In fact, you’re “in public” in a private establishment, with which you have an assumed agreement to be recorded and for that recording to be used in any way the company sees fit.
There are thousands of recordings of people from security cameras on YouTube. From Walmart to tiny gas stations, all being used to farm interactions. One channel I’ve seen puts up explicitly videos of people stealing from them.
None of that can be sued over. Or more accurately, it wouldn’t be a successful suit. Because there is no expectation of privacy in public.