If I was estate agent I'd have just laughed and said thanks for the heads up, then wished the camera man a good day. Britain is now full of insecure petty authoritarians.
Terrorism suspicion or stalking. I wonder what hed do if someone sat on the road outside his house and filmed inside. His family etc. Surely he wouldn't mind. 🤷♂️
@@garethboxall no they don't. That's the whole point. Half the time it's several police come out the station. What were they all doing if they were buisy. Its bad management. On there phones on Facebook n RU-vid lol that's what our police force are doing
Hahahaha, that woman "who are you?" She literally will talk down to anyone instead of taking the criticism, turn the screens, accept the free help and avoid a massive fine for breaching someone data.
The fact of the matter the estate agent just didn't give a crap about customers data. Not only that, he even confessed that someone has told him this before and still didn't do anything (like switch the screen around). It's people like AB that hihlighted this issue to them and they all didn't care. Their customers need to be notified so they lose buisness and once that happens they'll be very reluctant to do that again. Great Job AB, your service you provide is very much appreciated.
I emailed their head office a complaint and linked the video stating they breached data protection, had terrible attitude towards the public and filed a false police report. They said its currently under investigation. You should do a re visit.
No. You misunderstand the law. (As do the police all to often). There is no offence of simply 'causing someone alarm, distress or harassment'. There are other elements required. Depending on the offence, threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disordely behaviour are required. Disagreeing with someones point of view, or not liking what they are doing do not automatically create an offence because you are 'alarmed or distressed'.
I’m pretty sure that if they were to explain that they felt uncomfortable with someone filming for a reason unknown to them that they wouldn’t be seen as the ones in the wrong 🤷🏼♀️ how were they to know he wasn’t just some weird creep filming for his own jollies? 😂
@@sarahrichards5737 Legally speaking 'a wierd creep filming for his own jollies' is still not an offence. If the images he films are not indecent he can do with them whatver he wants. I know what you are trying to get at, and I am speaking on a legal level only. Being 'uncomfortable' with someones actions does not make the actions an offence. Turn it round the other way. For instance if you accused me of being a wierd creep, it might make me feel uncomfortable. It doesn't mean you have commited an offence by making me feel uncomfortable.
@@Stuart_George i completely understand that but I’m just explain why they didn’t want to talk nicely when he had already got their backs up about what was happening because initially they didn’t have a clue what his intentions were. If he went and spoke into them first then I really doubt they would have reacted like that! Just saying her reaction wasn’t unjust like everyone seems to think.
Not logic, facts. I doubt the police officers in his video are able to comprehend the basics of logic, as in "round peg in round hole". I bet they'd put the square peg in the triangle hole..
@@AuditingBritain still I think you can do even better by giving more pointed replies to those tyrant cops just like Amagansett press, Long island audit or Bay area transperancy. I don't know how cops behave if anyone stands up for there constitutional right over in UK but in usa if an auditor knows his rights and knowledge about what he is doing than no cop can do anything to him. I like your way of auditing but in most of the videos of yours, i see whenever some cops show up, You start being a little defensive and let them talk over you too much even if they are wrong. I like your audits, just hope you stand up for yourself a bit more in the future in front of cops 😄
@@khurrambaig1867 amagansett guy is awful. Most irritating guy on the internet. Him and his inbred family. That time he cried and handed his id 🪪 over straight away after he got arrested like a bitch. Massive fail from an auditor. Biggest fail I’ve see. And serves him right the way he speaks to people. He only carries his gun to prevent getting punched in his face
People in a city centre are being recorded by CCTV constantly & their movements tracked by their smartphones, yet they get instantly offended by a person with a camera phone pointing in their direction. The public need to realise the hypocritical double standards that we happily accept in today’s society. Good work AB.
@JB-np4lp - Yes!! 🤔Interesting! I would have thought that the British would be used to cameras all around and pointed at them, by now, and that they would have more confidence in themselves! I’ve watched how the people in the USA often go hysterical and crazy, but you don’t have DisneyLand in the UK!
Nonsense.. He was deliberately filming so he would hope to get the police involved.. And then hope he would get a reaction from the police.. But they were quite decent to him ( bet he was gutted with that) look people some police are well out of order.. But he's deliberately trying to get a reaction.. Nuff said
@@matthall9841 the fact of the matter is the police do not have a reason in hell to even speak to him, either recording in public is a crime or it isn't, the boy in uniform claiming it can be a nuisance? you can't make your own laws up as you go along .
That woman came out of the shop demanding answers and then when you started answering she didn't want to hear it?! You said can I finish and she said no. So why did she bother asking? 😂🤔 There's no cure for stupid and it's scaryyyyy
under what grounds? are you serious? a member of the public (sia badge security guard) contacted the police and said he was suspicious and aggressive and was filming and who knows what else he said off camera. this is enough grounds for suspicion. seriously this audit needs an audit
@@ibrahim-sj2cr yeah, because taking one side of the story without even approaching the other individual and taking their word for it is really good impartial policing 👍🏻 plus, he wasn't even being aggressive. His film showed that, so he was full of it. Nice try on justifying the response though.
This has to be the world's longest call to the police ever known to mankind. The security officer looked like he was just talking to a buddy for a half an hour.
And it proved his point perfectly, if he hadn't filmed it there's no evidence, they get away with it, and I guarantee they act the exact same way anyway calling the police on him. And then the police would have been asking him 'yeah but why you looking in their windows, can you understand why they feel harassed?' Assholes, every one of them.
They know all of our data are breached. Government owns you . That's why they don't care. . Since data protection, everybody just signs their data actively away to others.
The term “press charges” does not exist in the UK . No member of the public, or company, victim or otherwise, has any say in if someone is charged with an offence in the UK. I appreciate it’s different in other parts of the world
@@andrewstones2921 It can be done. If you go through private court win a case depending on the outcome the resulting judgement could be turned into a reason for arrest and charged..
@@andrewstones2921 RSPCA regularly prosecute privately. I believe they may be one of the most prolific private prosecutors in the country. Close to 1500 cases last year, with a >90% conviction rate, if their website is accurate.
@@andrewstones2921 is correct though, these other comments have it the wrong way around. In the UK it’s possible to bring a private prosecution, but that’s not the same thing as pressing charges. The point is that you cannot tell the police to NOT charge someone with a crime. As the complainant, it’s not up to you. If the CPS have enough evidence to achieve a conviction, they can press ahead regardless of what the victim wants to do. Unlike in other countries where i can decide not to press charges against a guy who punches me in the face. In the UK, that’s not your decision. Private prosecution is not comparable to the idea of pressing charges. That would occur in cases where the CPS did not believe there was likelihood of conviction but someone decides to do it privately - like crimebodge as stated here. He did that because CPS wouldn’t prosecute.
The funny thing is, if he was a private business that made a profit from exposing businesses for breaching data protection, the police would have sided with him, they are only there to protect for profit businesses activities and not for the publics interests.
I think it is embarrassing and even worrying that there are so many people who make assumptions about what constitutes a breach of their right to privacy simply because they don't like the idea of somebody filming them without their permission. With so much surveillance in place and not to mention the proliferation of camera phones, there is no excuse for not having the facts regarding all the ins and outs of filming. This includes those that the dillusional ones run to with their complaints.
AB you are the best at what you do. If it was me I would have told that rude cop, that I would report him to the Information Commissioner (IC) for collusion with the Estate Agent in breaching data protection laws and potentially displaying private information that you had evidence of and could lawfully share with the IC. You are a hero AB!
@@truthbaxter9689 If you were a customer of that estate agent, would you be happy with your personal information potentially showing through shop front windows on a high street? In these days of technological marvel with even phones now getting optical zooms, all can be recorded clearly. An estate agent's computer systems hold bank statements for proof of deposits for house purchases, people's employment details, and finance for tenancy applications, addresses for all customers, their mobiles, credit card details for fees... I operate a mortgage broker firm, they are in serious breach of data protection laws and they must be as thick as shit to not even realise. Opaque film on the windows, or a move around in the office to ensure screens not seen from the shop front.
I suspect one day, these shits will be like fully fledged Stasi. Once the Government decide to consider drawing up a new version of Human Rights Legislation that favors the State, rather than the individual.
Rude people never like to be challenged about their own rudeness but are usually very quick to point out someone else’s perceived rudeness. It’s a trait of the narcissistic authoritarian
Plus he's right about the screens. I'm a sysadmin. They're not meant to have the screens like that. My local estate agent has it in a way that you can't see the screens. I recall working nr Fleet Street, looking at other offices from height...being able to read people's screens (with my binoculars!!)
@lawrence windrush same where I live with openly carrying a side arm. Tourists from other states freak out when they see it..call the cops...cops laugh at them.
@@joem1102 Should have the right to bear arms in the UK, even our Olympic teams for shooting have to train in another country. And yet even more of our Police are armed with side arms and machine guns, they look as if they are about to invade Poland.
There have been actual cases in the UK where fraudsters pose as estate agents and email house buyers with bank details to send deposit to, so estate agents leaking email addresses etc is actually a serious risk.
He's prob an entitled illegal telling Brits about obeying the law. While they've probably broken so many laws coming over. He needs to be investigated for fraud too.
Finally, someone treats estate agents the way they should be treated. Useless intermediaries that are always out for their own selfish interest, screwing buyers and sellers alike!
Everyone needs to take lessons from this gentleman right here. He knows how to talk and carry himself around police. He's cool, calm, collected, well spoken, educated on the law and most importantly polite and civil.
I don't think he knows how to talk at all. He got involved in long, convoluted discussion with the police officers instead of simply informing the officers he was going about his lawful business when two irate people accosted him. He pointed out to the irate persons that they were in breach of the Data Protection Act whereupon they left and the police were called. That's all he needed to say and all that he should have said, repeatedly if necessary. He should have stayed on the ball instead of attempting long, meandering explanations to the officers and before the officers left he should have asked them if they would speak to the irate persons for breaching the Data Protection Act.
@@frankclough380 Maybe he could've been a little more direct but he wasn't doing anything illegal and shouldn't have to explain himself. He was unlawfully detained so he exercised his right to remain silent which He can exercise any time. He told the officers the place of buisiness was in breach of the data protection act and they didn't seem to care. Like most cops they were prideful and egotistical. You cant tell them anything. They do what they want. Thank God he was recording or false accusations would be taken seriously and lead to arrest. People said he was rude, confrontational and aggressive. Which wasn't true at all. It's perfectly legal to film in public and that's that, end of story.
@carolyn boyce There's only a few simple principles to actually remember. Remain within the boundaries of the law and make sure you film absolutely everything so that false accusations can't be made. Youre legally within in your rights to film in public. That's all you really need to know. Just say I'm an auditor , you don't answer questions, and I now invoke my right to remain silent. If they illegally detain and try to question you ask for a supervisor. If that fails ask to contact your attorney. Just make sure to Get their names and badge numbers so you can hold them accountable later. Simple.
The sole purpose of the videos is to get into a confrontation with anyone preferably a police officer. He knows what he's doing will attract attention. Then when he get searched he wonders why
Why do the police go missing when your house gets burgled, but turn up in numbers when a man with a camera appears? I see it all the time and I'm sure voo school isn't is thorough as it used to be.🤣. You turn up with hopes becoming a brilliant officer down the line - but graduate with a raciat mentality, itchy taser finger and a massive chip on their shoulder.
I know Oxfordshire very well and I can tell you that Abingdon is a stinking shithole. Like every single place in Oxfordshire. The highest levels of inbreeding in Europe and and overaboundance of mutants. Must be the water. Or all the goats they fuck....
Literally thousands and thousands of videos online. Countless cases in the news. And yet people are still ignorant to their rights regarding public filming.
@ Luke Vaughan People are more interested in sharing bulls**t on Facebook and the like instead of issues that really matter. I'm not on it but my other half is and the amount of absolute shyte that people want her to SHARE & LIKE no wonder this type of ignorance still exsists.
The true master at work ... smooth as always .... often wonder why you guys don't carry copies of the acts and the much talked about email , to get them to read them back to you
A legit favorite would be going in the shop and explaining nicely that the screens are on show! What he did was not a favor at all! He stood filming them and making them feel uncomfortable for a couple minutes before they had to come out and ask what he was doing so of course they are going to have there back up from the get go! Don’t intimidate people and expect a nice response 👍🏼
"I'm detaining you, I actually don't have reasonable grounds to do so and can't answer a straight question when asked, but if you want to incriminate yourself that would make my job a lot easier"
I dont have a huge issue with how the police acted. They can only go on the information given to them (wether its true or not) and that information was that he was being aggressive and intimidating and that is enough grounds to suspect a public order offence may have been committed.
Good audit that one, really enjoyed it. Totally agree with the GDPR angle, I work in I.T and we constantly have to obsess over not storing customer details insecurely.. It annoys me to see people with whole monitors in plain view of public (very blatantly) They should be fined IMO, as it's the only way companies will learn to follow and respect the rules..
He's being rude and aggressive. The immediate question should have been "how is he being aggressive and what is he doing?". What type of offense is rudeness? This is what happens when you have hate speach laws.
These so called officers need lined up alongside the politicians! It's high time we sorted this out once and for all! Much love from here in bonnie Scotland 💙
AB been really enjoying your videos......amazing how consistent the sheer panic of some of these police officers are when resented with a simple man filming what he can see with his eyes. we all know you like throwing a few spanners in the works and getting their anuses puckering, but its observational journalism at its raw finest cringe, keep up the good work brother.
PC Shortie turns his camera OFF when AB dresses them down,so his bosses dont see his response to it As for the other PC, he needs to go back for more training ASAP He seems to have forgotten the laws already !
I would agree about the retraining John, however, after seeing what the police seem to be getting away with during ‘this current climate’ (😂) I can’t help feel they are being trained to be exactly like in this video! Pick on the citizens, stamp on rights and stick up for other peoples ‘feelings’.
Problem is coppers ego's gets in the way of the 1 brain cells worth of the law they know. No one has to talk to them if they so wish. For a citizen to question their poor actions, knowledge, etc (bare in mind a copper can lie legally) they either get defensive or want to go hands on and trump up charges to make a person's life harder just because they can, which is just another way of trying to show they have power over people, pathetic egotistical thugs in most case's.
Yo AB, I was born and brought up in Abingdon. I now live in Cornwall. You should come here and do your thing, the Devon and Cornwall police will give you some laughs
"GO BACK TO YOUR SHOP!" had me in tears, AGAIN. Your interactions are pure brilliance, and show the absurdity within modern Britain up with a LASER beams focus
Few good sayings "Butt hurt try Preparation H" "Can I have your name?" "Why do you not have one of your own?" "This site is secured!" "So what you worried about then?" "Where do you live?" "In a house!" "Where did you come from?" "My mum where did you come from?"
The cop was drinking instant coffee. He had no grounds. He said he had grounds to make an arrest, but he cannot tell AB what the grounds are because then AB would know they don’t exist.
I was in a well-known supermarket chain in England and the security guards stopped me for suspicion of shoplifting "which I had not" but the people coming in and out of the store didn't know that , did they if they see me days later in the town centre (as a example) they would have said that's the guy who was shopping in I will known supermarket and the security guards stopped him they didn't know that I was innocent , did they I am now branded every where I go some people might say I am been paranoid but I know what people are thinking I live in the real world and that's what A B is trying to say but he is lucky because he doesn't live in that town where with my case I do
i advise everyone to watch this video again, just to fully understand how rude the estate agents are. they asked AB a question, which he started to answer, but then they just kept interrupting him and he never got a chance to articulate his point. whenever AB said "can i just explain...", they simply replied "no." they had no interest in engaging AB in a proper discussion, they just wanted to express their anger and aggression. not once was AB rude to them.
AB is right.. this is not the US where police can do investigative detainment... There are specific powers to detain, Sec.1 PACE, Sec.60, MDA 23.. However, If the officer suspect AB of Sec.5 public order offence his only option is to arrest AB if he insist on leaving.. and de-arrest him if it turned out the information is not true. However, before the officer can arrest AB the officer must have made up his own mind based on objective facts the offence has been committed.. the officer cannot make that determination because his colleague was still speaking to the complainant. In short, that was an illegal detainment.
Dead right. There are very few powers to detain as such. Stop and search powers are the most obvious. Breach of Peace arrest powers and I believe there is a power under the Mental Health Act to detain. Outside of those there is no power to detain in order to find reasonable suspicion of an offence. Essentially, outsideof the powers mentioned above, an arrest is the constables power of detention. (If memory serves me right, I think there are powers to detain people in premises when executing a search warrant).
in this case it constitutes harassment and serves no other purpose than to irritate and annoy people. in this case it'll an illegal use of a camera in public
@@jeffbanks9955 Incorrect. Also, she was only angry because she knew he was right, they ARE breaching data security. They need either glass covering or privacy screens on ALL monitors. Learn the facts before you comment.
@@vaiman7777 1) if you intend to use the photograph for publication, commercial use or stock photography then you need a signed model release. youtube counts as publication. 2) you cannot photograph someone (using a long lens for example) from a public space of them in a private place, such as their home, without their consent. This is an invasion of privacy even though the photo is taken from a public place. This was a privately owned commercial property and is therfore in breach of privacy laws and illegal. do your own homework buddy boy. Why do you think paparazzi arent allowed to stand outside peoples homes and photograph them inside their own private residence? think next time before you comment
@@jeffbanks9955 Seems Chief Inspector Edward Hancox also disagrees with you chump. You obviously need more training officer, ask for it so we don't have to put up with nonsense like you post. Educate yourself correctly next time before you contact me ok chump.
Never meet an estate yet that didn't have two faces, one that is over the top smiley and helpful when they think that they can make money from you and the other that is, as you say, vile when they know they can't.
That was classic AB. Its amazing that people don't know about data protection and filming lawfully in a public area.It really gave me a good chortle. Nice one.
Wish we had police like these two where I live, there's loads of perfectly legal stuff going on that I find slightly irritating. The only problem is that they aren't interested in crimes and I do need the police to take an interest in that sort of thing as well.
Endless supply of police for trivial non offences while real ones are committed ,reminds me of inspector Clouseau asking the blind man if he has a licence for his minkie while a bank robbery is taking place behind him
Best way to flip this round is, fine call the police, but while we wait I’ll just log on to ICO web site and report a data breach. Grass me up, I’ll grass you up! Simple.
Was waiting outside an estate agents the other day and I thought the same thing about data protection, whilst looking straight into the office at a computer screen with emails, names, numbers and addresses on it. I knew I wasn't the only one.
Why are they talking to him, they should go back in and tell the people to turn the screens round. If your info was in that office then you should complain. Christ on a bike there is too much scamming going on without offices letting everyone see peoples information.
They are enforcing their personal feelings rather than the law, if they was enforcing the law they would have left the law abiding citizen alone and dealt with the shop that was breaking the law.
@Matthew721 79 my old landlord took over the rental after 6 months. My teenage daughter battling cancer had carbon monoxide poisoning down 2 3 dodgy gas safety certificates carried out by a Unqualified Engineer. We called environmental health out and they put a order on so to stop us paying rent - the old landlord went to the old Estate Agents and got our information without us knowing - she started contacting my work, my husbands work, then she started splashing around our in-depth credit report - Estate Agents have to destroy your credit file within 30 days. It was shocking the amount of information including my twitter, Facebook and Instagram account with pictures of my family shocking stuff really with this Estate Agents
Snowflakes? Yes. Brainless? Absolutely. These police officers are moronic. They just do not listen. You were trying to tell them that a company was doing something very wrong, yet they were not the slightest bit interested. Here's an idea: every time a neighbour annoys us, call the police and they'll get detained under suspicion of committing a public order offence. Keep up the great work you're doing... Very entertaining!
