system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
On 'To Catch a Predator' how are they allowed to show the faces of the pedophiles on national television when they say they don't want their faces shown?

I thought it was illegal to show people's faces on television without their permission, that's why so many are blurred in news stories, documentaries, etc.

EDIT: ephebophiles, not pedophiles.
gpt
Dateline is a news show rather than mere entertainment so it doesn't have to follow the same rules.  It's a sting operation and the ephebophiles* are arrested.  That make it news, despite it being entertaining to watch.

*pedophiles are people who are attracted to prepubescent children, usually under age 13.  The people being caught on that show are euphebophiles, which is an attraction to adolescent minors.