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Border Security filming draws fire over privacy Reality TV show posts notices at Abbotsford and other crossings Jeff NAGEL Black Press
Civil libertarians are warning cross-border shoppers and others visiting the U.S. to guard their privacy to avoid becoming guest stars in the controversial reality TV show Border Security. B.C. Civil Liberties Association executive director Josh Paterson said signs posted earlier this spring at B.C. border crossings
advised the public they may be filmed and by being there they consent to the use of their images in the show, now in its second season of filming. Border Security caused an uproar in March when the reality TV crews filmed a raid by Canadian border security agents where migrant workers were arrested and some later deported, despite privacy objections. The signs posted at Lower Mainland cross-
ings were recently revised to say those who don’t consent will have their faces obscured, but must approach TV crews if they don’t want to be filmed at all. Paterson said it’s still “completely inappropriate” that people are filmed for the show at border crossings in Surrey and Abbotsford as well as Vancouver International Airport. “Making a for-entertainment, for-profit Continued on A4
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A reality television show that films Canadian border officers during their duties has spurred the B.C. Civil Liberties Association to raise privacy concerns.
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