Help - Someone Filing FALSE Privacy Complaints Against Me

[Gabriel]

If I leave it up and they delete it I get a strike? I hadn't read that…could you point me toward exactly where it says that? Thanks a lot.

You will get a community guideline strike if they find it to be in violation of their privacy, privacy is a part of the CGs on YouTube. Blur the person if you don't want to risk it using the edit tool on the reported time stamp (if it has less than 10k views).

could you point me toward exactly where it says that?

Personal experience and I have previously spoken with probably over 100 people with privacy complaints on the official YouTube forums. Unless they have a new policy which I doubt.

 

[Prank Invasion]

You will get a community guideline strike if they find it to be in violation of their privacy, privacy is a part of the CGs on YouTube. Blur the person if you don't want to risk it using the edit tool on the reported time stamp (if it has less than 10k views).


Personal experience and I have previously spoken with probably over 100 people with privacy complaints on the official YouTube forums. Unless they have a new policy which I doubt.

Gabriel,

I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out in this thread. It means a lot man. Unfortunately, it doesn't have less than 10K views it has over 110,000+ views so I can't edit it right?--it's my biggest video.

***The worst part is that the guy in question granted me permission to use him and this is all just a complete fraud by some competitor of mine.

 

[Gabriel]

Gabriel,

I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out in this thread. It means a lot man. Unfortunately, it doesn't have less than 10K views it has over 110,000+ views so I can't edit it right?--it's my biggest video.

***The worst part is that the guy in question granted me permission to use him and this is all just a complete fraud by some competitor of mine.

I see, that's a shame. Check how many views it's generated in the past 30 days, if it's only a couple of thousand I'd just delete to be honest (I hate strikes so I never risk it).

 

[Prank Invasion]

I see, that's a shame. Check how many views it's generated in the past 30 days, if it's only a couple of thousand I'd just delete to be honest (I hate strikes so I never risk it).

You're right.

UPDATE: I pulled out the consent form and called the guy up where the violation occurred and he laughed and told me it wasn't him that filed a complaint and that I could "definitely keep him in the video". I live about 20 minutes from Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA so I think I'm going to head over there with my consent form and this guys phone number to see if they can help me. If not I'll do as you suggested.

I'm just wondering what will keep this from happening in the future if I can't do anything about it even with cold hard proof I have consent including the guy's phone number.

 

[Gabriel]

I'm just wondering what will keep this from happening in the future if I can't do anything about it even with cold hard proof I have consent including the guy's phone number.

Well you're meant to leave the video up if there is no violation according to you, however I'm just advising you to be safe because YouTube tends to take their side with the person filing the complaint and it's also because of privacy laws they would rather not have any problems. I've dealt with false privacy complaints on another channel that I no longer use and the times I risked it and left it up (there was no video editing on YT back then), YouTube took it down anyway.

Good luck whatever you decide to do anyway.

 

[mycharliequinn]

From YouTube's point of view if they take your side and are wrong then they can get sued, but if they take their side and are wrong then nothing bad will happen.
You may have to take it down regardless.