YouTube Hits Media Critic Candidate Hit with Privacy Complaint

This will probably fuel Doug Biviano's theory the media is actively working to destroy his candidacy for New York State Assembly (and thus, keep the state's election laws in place): YouTube sent him a notice saying his video was hit with a privacy complaint from an NBC employee who appears briefly in the video.

YouTube's notice of the complaint includes this ultimatum:

"Please edit or remove the material reported by the individual within 48 hours from today's date. If no action is taken, the video will then come in for review by the YouTube staff and be prohibited from being uploaded again."

Here's the complaint, provided by Biviano:

From Youtube

This privacy complaint to YouTube was issued from a person who was at the information desk at 30 Rock
whose face was on the video for 3 seconds his voice was on for 7 seconds
The campaign did not send the employee the video

Dear BivForBrooklyn,

This is to notify you that we have received a privacy complaint from an
individual regarding your content:

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Video URLs:

/> The information reported as violating privacy is at 5:45

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We would like to give you an opportunity to remove or edit your video so
that it no longer potentially violates the privacy of the individuals
involved You can edit your video by removing names and other personal
information from the video's title, metadata or tags. Annotations or
marking the video as private are not acceptable forms of editing and your
video will still be at risk of removal. Please edit or remove the material
reported by the individual within 48 hours from today's date. If no action
is taken, the video will then come in for review by the YouTube staff and
be prohibited from being uploaded again.

If the potential privacy violation is contained within the metadata or
title of the video, you should be able to edit this content without video
removal. If the potential privacy violation is within the video content,
the video may have to be removed completely.

Protecting a person's privacy is protecting their personal safety. When
uploading videos in the future, please remember not to post someone else's
image or personal information without their consent. Personal information
includes things like names, phone numbers, and email addresses. For more
information, please review our Community Guidelines at

and our Safety Center at

The YouTube Team