Petition · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Make aggressive social media auditing a criminal offence

Closed 252 signatures

What the petition asks

Social media auditing is the past-time of a person, usually referred to as an "auditor", visiting a location with the intention of exercising their rights to film and take photographs at that location. They later upload their footage of the location to social media.
We believe social media auditors often attend private or otherwise sensitive locations in an active effort to seek confrontation with the occupiers or staff there. We believe they do this as it makes for more "entertaining" footage to share via social media, which in turn generates more publicity and revenue for them. We believe auditors often behave aggressively and refuse to leave private property. We believe a specific offence could prevent them from being a nuisance in this manner.

Timeline

12 Mar 2025 Petition opened for signatures
12 Sep 2025 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 252
Status Closed
Department Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Opened 12 Mar 2025
Closed 12 Sep 2025

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 7 Aug 2026.