Sep 22, 2026, 7:57 PM

I have to say in the #SotM2026 recordings it's pretty weird that the camera was put behind the audience and is filming people's screens. You can see what they're typing. They were clearly not aware of it.

They also used a moving camera operator behind the speaker, showing the audience and zooming into faces.

Never saw this in previous SotM recordings, and given that the #OSM community is usually rather privacy conscious/respecting, this definitely felt strange.

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Still of the video where the camera operator zoomed in on a person taking notes with pen and paper. Their head and name badge were also visible. I cropped out the head, and blurred the badge and paper.

Shot from behind the audience showing people's phone screen with a private messenger app open while they use the on-screen keyboard. I have blurred the audience and screens.