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Student Arrested For Posting Zombie-Killing AR Game Clip Filmed at His High School (yahoo.com)
18-year-old high school student Sean Small was arrested in Indiana on Tuesday and charged with a misdemeanor for posting a videogame clip to social media. An anonymous reader quotes Yahoo Lifestyle:
The clip in question is Sean playing The Walking Dead: Our World, which is an augmented reality game that animates characters into a real-world setting. In this case, players kill zombies. Along with Sean's video he wrote, "Finally something better than Pokemon Go," which is also an augmented reality game....
Sean, who is a member of the Indiana National Guard, pleaded not guilty to an intimidation charge. He was released on $1,000, and his school expulsion hearing is set for next week. The video featured other students walking through the halls as Sean allegedly attempted to kill the zombies the game placed among them.
Realistic footage of shootings in the high school's hallways apparently alarmed the off-duty sheriff's deputy hired to work at the high school -- who then filed the misdemeanor intimidation charge with the county prosecutor.
Sean, who is a member of the Indiana National Guard, pleaded not guilty to an intimidation charge. He was released on $1,000, and his school expulsion hearing is set for next week. The video featured other students walking through the halls as Sean allegedly attempted to kill the zombies the game placed among them.
Realistic footage of shootings in the high school's hallways apparently alarmed the off-duty sheriff's deputy hired to work at the high school -- who then filed the misdemeanor intimidation charge with the county prosecutor.
Actually, if you are talking the US, you'te completely wrong. Gun toting is a right (without the quotes), but unfortunately, some states fail to grasp this concept - places like NY, NJ, CA. Those bastions of "liberal" thought...
Congratulations on supporting a police state?
Something ambiguous that, depending on additional facts, either could be probable cause for a crime or could be innocuous is not itself PC. Those additional facts have to be deduced to find PC. In this case, they weren't there.
>He filmed people without their consent and posted it online.
Nope.
Scott County Sheriffâ(TM)s Deputy Joe Baker and principal Ric Mann determined after watching the video that it âoedepicted real Scottsburg High School students walking through the hallway along with fictional zombie characters,â according to WDRB-TV.
âoeSuch students could not be identified due to the appâ(TM)s photographic settings,â the station reported, citing a probable cause affidavit.
So apparently the app has a face blurring or obscuring algorithm that protects the identity of real people that happen to appear in game background.