Would somebody please explain to me the purpose of this whole 'auditor' thing? You know, the guys who go stand in a public place on public property, point their video camera or cell phone at a sensitive building (such as a clinic or a bank or a hospital) and record the front of the building to include the people coming in and out of it? This seems to be all the rave these days, and for the life of me I can't figure out a sound, logical reason for it.
In the first place, exactly what are they 'auditing?' And why? If they were hired by a company to take video, then that's one thing - but to just stand out on the sidewalk and record the outside of a building for no good fuckin' reason other than you can makes no sense.
The clowns who do this - and IMHO that's just what they are, clowns - will tell you that they're 'exercising their First Amendment rights,' but I don't buy that. Whenever they're asked why they're recording, they'll just say "I'm exercising my Constitutional rights" or "I'm exercising my First Amendment rights" without actually answering the question. Nine times out of ten the people who are confronting them don't know anything about the Constitution or the First Amendment, so they'll always say that "what you're doing is illegal and I'm calling the cops!"
News flash - this is exactly what these clowns want you to do. They know that when the cops get there they'll say the same thing as the so-called 'auditor' - that he's on public property and can record anything he wants. If it's happening in front of a clinic, the person who confronts him will claim it's a violation of HIPPA laws, but the truth is that it's not. HIPPA laws cover the release of medical information on a patient to someone other than a family member; it says nothing about recording the outside of a clinic. So no, HIPPA laws don't apply.
So why are these clowns doing this? Simple - they're trying to stir up shit to have something nice and juicy to post on TikTok or YouTube and get their fifteen minutes of fame. That's it. That's the whole reason for it. Either that, or to bait an uninformed cop into taking some kind of action against them, which will make the video even juicier and also let the 'auditor' sue the police officer, the police department, and the city. And the sad thing is that every now and then some dumbass cop will do just that, and the video will go viral. That gives ALL cops a bad name, and that's something that the good cops can do without.
Until someone gives me a sound, logical reason for these clowns standing outside anyplace and recording the people walking past, I'm going to stand by my opinion that they're doing it just to stir up shit and get something to post on the internet - all for the sake of VIEWS.
These clowns are both sad and pathetic. If you have to stoop to something like this in order to get attention, then you have a serious problem.
And if you're doing it just to stir up shit and cause trouble, then you're an asshole.
Period.
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