I dont think you have to feel Bad about this at all. Companies do this to you the other way round if the want a specific candidate and that one doesn’t accept then they offer it to the next person often taking quite some time.

That is less a dick move and more how job search is now.

Covers publishing, re-distributing and taking of pictures (the latter as I hinted at before has some limitations)

So the drawback of that law is that it is not explicitly/automatically enforced. One has to bring it up with the authorities themselves basically. So if you don’t notice somebody taking a picture and/or distributing it. Nothing happens automatically.

That is a law in Germany. You have the right to your image, be it photographic or video graphic. There are some exceptions like being in a crowd (i.e. unrecognisable).

That means if a newspaper has you in it. They must remove you or make you unrecognisable. And if somebody is taking a video or picture of you, they have to delete it if you ask and are technically not allowed to do so in the first place.

And believe me Germans do make use of that right.

Also aren’t whale carcasses also prone to explosion due to the pressure caused by the decay?