He was recording in a very aggressive way. He literally sits down at someones table while they're on the phone. That's about as obnoxious as you can get. Watching a video like this makes me wonder how I would respond. I was at the park the other day and there was a guy there taking photos of the ducks in the pond. I had my daughter with me and I could see he was positioning himself to photograph her feeding the ducks. I intentionally stepped between his line of focus and her. I'm not sure why I felt compelled to block that shot, but I did.
That's really interesting. There's just something very discomforting about being watched by strangers with recording devices. People can watch us just with their eyes, and we might not give it much thought, but if they're recording it we get antsy, even if we aren't doing anything we would be embarrassed about or really need kept private. We all feel it. What's up with that?
I think it's because we never know what they're going to do with it after they have recorded it. I normally wouldn't care much if they were only photographing me, but my wife and my daughter… That's another story.