Noah wrote: > If you an and I are shopping in the same store, and I don't want > you to take my picture, do you have the right to do so? Does this fall > under freedom of the press -- In the worst case scenario think about how > the patrons of an adult book store would feel if you walked in with a > camera. This is a qustion, not an opinion. I think there's a distinction which hasn't been made in this thread yet. It's not illegal to take pictures of *anyone* - photons are free. You can't legislate against that except under peeping-tom laws. However, *use* of the picture is certainly legislated. If you take a picture of someone in a adult book store, that's most likely legal (unless there's entrapment or something like that going on). On the other hand, if you then use that picture as the centerpiece of your article on smut, and defame this person, then you're committing libel. BTW, if anyone is entering into this discussion without reading Steve Mann's essay on these issues, you might consider perusing it. <http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/netcam_privacy_issues.html> I found it an excellent consolidation of most the issues I was thinking about. > Noah Alex Feinman -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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