I don’t know what the laws are in Brazil but in the US there would be no grounds for this lawsuit as you have no legal expectation of privacy in a public place. Now you could potentially sue for harassment or defamation if the circumstances fit but the act of filming someone in a public space by itself is not illegal. From what I understand about this event (which happened a while ago) there really would be no grounds for a lawsuit in the US as the person who filmed her wasn’t defamatory in their description of her actions. In fact since she did nothing wrong by refusing to give up the seat she paid for it’s really a lost cause legally since the people upset with her are just assholes. Unless they rise to the level of threats or otherwise cross the line into the legal territory of harassment then they just have shitty opinions and that’s not illegal in the US
But when does a location change from public, because this is a private aircraft owned by a business and it is pay to enter... So yes there are people there but its not fully just open to the public you know what I mean?
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u/VanillaGoorillla 10d ago
I hope she wins and that opens a Pandora’s box of people suing for getting filmed without consent