Reaction video: What’s everyone’s option about the law of fliming buses is it illegal or legal? 

There can't be a place that is more publicly accessible than a bus station.

kinda getting fed up of seeing these rent-a-cops trying to look for trouble.

No expectation of privacy in a public space.

You can almost see the ignorance oozing from his pores.

Got told last week by a DHL delivery driver that it was illegal for me to film him when he was delivering to my property - what a div! I said how do the police and councils get away with operating cctv and all the households with Ring doorbells get away with it then. He still kept arguing though.

They are filming the public via cctv - nobody ask our permission !

One minute he said you can't film in public, then he says it's private property. So what happened did the police turn up?.

At least 10 sandwiches short of a picnic that one 😂😂😂. That big m on his back stands for i am a complete Moron 😂😂

Little weasel went crying to little piggies

I didn't know any Bus Station was a place where no-one could use a camera.

Buy a bus ticket then you are entitled to be there as a potential passenger and little Adolf's argument falls apart.

AS long as there are cameras viewing the people in all parts of cities towns villages then the bus companies are no different.

I have had this kind of trouble. I think the best thing to do is conceal the camera in something such as a rucksack!

Yellow jacket lawyers are always the best aren’t they

Nice one mate!! Sorted that knobhead in quick time. 😄😄😄😄

Those buses should file for harrassment, especially the double decker. Not the plonker with the chip on his shoulder though.

People have been filming buses since they were invented there is historical photographs and proof of buses in use containing accidents different historic bus types that would have been lost to history over the years.Many colleagues and myself were filmed in the ten years I served as a bus conductor in the seventies .The photographer’s who did so never got in our way but I’m pleased they filmed us for posterity.This world is getting crazy with paranoid people who think they have powers they do not .The photos of children is a different matter and should handled differently if abuse is suspected it should be reported.

Hi everyone, thank you very much for your options and comments on this video and thanks for your feedback everyone. Peter & The Bus Entertainment Team

I was a Bus driver in the 70's there have always been coach photographers , back then they were welcome and some invited inside the Depo and workshops fo a look around and photograph , back then they never had video cameras and would often pay a bus fare to take a short tour , some with sound recorders who held the mic to the floor to record the engines on single deck coaches, I have even when out in the countryside stopped the bus so they could get a decent picture , a few have asked if I would like some pictures sent through the post to me (no internet) which they did send, these photographer's are like historians of transport keeping records of the same bus fleet number from new to scrap and private ownership .

I get filmed often when driving in an out of the depots. Not a problem, cctv everywhere recording anyway. No problem talking to them, answering questions, and have shown some around vehicles that they want to take some closer footage of. I'm on the Isle of Man

I've photographed many buses in many different stations but that was from the pavement and not the station itself and not had any confrontations, only had one driver that shouted at me not to take a photo but that was on public land. Even when commonwealth games were on in Birmingham, there were a few of us taking photos and not once did we get stopped by the police.

in that very same bus station, whilst i was driving buses, i was filmed MANY times. and lived through it. just waved to bus spotters.

How can you catch a bus if you’re not allowed in the bus station?

They'll be telling us to stop trainspotting next.

Is it private or not ? will somebody put up a legal sign so all will know.?

Ther are more cameras of all types in the UK than most countries. Everyone here should be used to them by now, including him.

If you need background music for this; "Jeremy Soule - Harvest Dawn (Oblivion Soundtrack)"

Of course whilst they are objecting to enthusiasts with cameras half of the passengers in the bus station are busy video calling or taking selfies with all and sundry in the background!!

Which country are we supposed to be in!

Of course you can film in a public or publicly accessible place, basic photography law, oh that includes people no expectation of privacy in public, and data protection is for companies not individuals

A bus driver once said to me, that if i photographed his bus again, he'd ahove the camera up my backside, so i reported him to the company, who did nothing about it. I didnt even get a reply. What some drivers don't understand, is that were not photographing them, its the buses were interested in. I believe, that at one time, enthusiasts weren't allowed to photograph buses at the transport interchange in Sheffield. If you're stood in a public place, no one can stop you filming, or photographing, unless you're in the way of passengers, etc.

He even has a great big M for Muppet on his back , says it all really

We have options on the law? Who knew.....

And what is he filming on his bodycam the lovely countryside ??...Plank !!

i hope he is FIRED

Filming is legal. Anywhere. Except in a prison or filming people involved in a court case. Also, in some military sites.

Nit a resident of the UK anymore but I would like to here more about the legislative reference he quoted. I did work in Government with the law and it was the most common thing for people making an argument to cherry pick a piece out of legislation that was meant to be read in its entirety. Off the top of my head though I would even challenge that the videographer was in private land if that was a public service. Or have they privatised the buses now?

Jobs worth get him a CAP.

He's a troll

If you can see it with your eyes, you can record it with your phone. Just look at the amount of ring doorbells and security cameras, do you honestly think they all asked everyone for their permission??????

Don’t blame you for not moving you’re in public at the end of the day and you’re allowed to film whatever you can see with your eyeballs. People need to learn the law.

Most bus cos r public sponsered

bus stops are at the expense of the local bus company

I use to be a bus driver in Swansea & was sacked as i had an agument with a bus spotter who was taking pictures when we was entering the bus terminal. I asked him to stop taking pictures to which he replied that he was in a public area blah blah blah , anyway after about 10 minutes of us arguing , a member of public was filming me which at the time i didnt know that , anyway she reported me to the company & i was sacked.

so is he against bus spotting then.... hahaha

Bus spotting is a hoby. Bus spotters know more about history of most buses and coaches .

🤡 that guy hay a boyfriend half his age and thinks everyone he talks to is him.

Location - Filming on the Interchange itself. Even though it's a public place, owned by Transport For Greater Manchester, therefore private property. Had he been stood on the road he'd have been OK. GDPR - Still applies to a single person. So giving out details of a bus, e.g. number plate, make, etc would be seen as breech of GDPR. My main concern would be publishing the video without the permission of Metro employee

Its a public space 100% legal right to film

Any thing you can see in public you can film and you can film into private property if the private property can be viewed from public property .. if you dont want to be viewed in private property build a big wall ... but just remember that when you build that wall you might as well put a roof on it because you can still be filmed using a drone 😂😂😂😂

What is this man trying to prove

Can’t fix stupid full stop 😂😂😂

What a clown, people film buses every day they have time off, never understand the reason, but just like train spotters, buses have their following to.

A total Twit ..!

I’m fed up with the people that keep filming these videos they are antagonising these situations to prove silly points like I can film here personally I don’t want you filming me walking along but you seem to think that’s ok

Well, look at it this way. Suppose someone carried out an attack at a bus station or somewhere like that and people were seriously injured. The during the inquiry it turned out that the perpetrator had planned the attack meticulously including doing a video reconnaissance of the area. Would people then ask why was he not challenged when he was doing that. I expect that some people who point out that it is legal to film in public would adk 'why didn't somebody do somethin?' The fact is whilst it isn't illegal it can be viewed as suspicious which prompts the interaction with the security/police. That's why these people do it. The want the engagement so that they can then have the 'it's all legal, even though its odd' conversation. At a time of heightened tension it's really the last thing anyone needs in having to deal with someone deliberately acting suspiciously when there may be genuine threats going on. Still, you can't account for folk. You are all allowed to act how we like within the boundaries of the law. I wonder how am 'auditor' would feel if they had inadvertently diverted police resource to deal with them and a serious incident occurred whilst it was going on? My guess would be to blame the authorities for that too.

It's stupid

Doofus protection act. Act smarter!

just get a job as a bus driver simple really insted of recording busses lol

Being a waste of space isn't against the law but this tool with a camera is one.

Wjat an absolute embarrassment of a human bring 😂😂😂😂😂

Jog on hi viz . You know nothing...

What a bell end

Bloke in HiVis what a C ee y U o N ext T uesday