Posting videos or photos of people being drunk in public can now get you a fine of 10,000 euros.

All this goes back to 2019 in Sevilla when somebody with a Twitter account started uploading visual material of inebriated people in the fairground, apparently without their permission. Before long, these sorts of uploads, taken in cities all over Spain, were going viral.

The sort of events became any public gathering, from weddings to village fiestas and even children’s post-Communion parties.

In Granada this weekend, the Feria de Corpus Christi will take place so the Consejo Audiovisual de Andalucía (CAA) (Andalusian Audiovisual Council) has announced that such footage or photos taken without the consent of the subject is an invasion of personal privacy and those that post them could face fines of up to 10,000 euros.

Regarding this, there has already been a precedent for a €10,000 fine, imposed in 2022 by the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) for the mass dissemination on social media of a video recorded without the subject’s consent.

Editorial comment: the solution is an obvious one; don’t get drunk in public and make a fool of yourself, embarrassing everybody around you. If you face public shame, it’s your own fault. Sorry!

We should be safe with this accompanying image of drunks, mind!

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia=

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