Do you mean in the courtroom or anywhere? Because filming and photographing people in public is legal everywhere in the U.S., and no consent is required.

> Do you mean in the courtroom or anywhere? Because filming and photographing people in public is legal everywhere in the U.S., and no consent is required.

First, note that "filming" in public is not necessarily legal in every state if you include recording audio of conversations you're not party to.

Second, the GP said should be illegal without consent, so clearly was talking about what's they consider right, not necessarily what is.

But most importantly, "filming and photographing people in public" is also obviously not what the GP was talking about. They said:

> Filming/video and lookups of people filtered through a corporate data mining operation without their consent should also be illegal.

And, actually, extracting biometrics from video of people and tracking them/data mining them without consent is in fact not legal in several states already, and potentially federal law, depending on what they do.