Dnia czwartek, 26 marca 2015 23:36:33 Seth pisze: > On Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:48:54 -0700, Razer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I called the police on a "Nicotine Nazi" one evening in my California > > town after he stuffed a camera in my face and called me a 'criminal' (if > > he only knew...) for ROLLING (not smoking) a cigarette on a Starbucks > > patio and was informed by the police it IS legal to take 'portrait > > photos' without the subject's permission (assuming they stay out of arms > > reach), and further (in case you were wondering why bullying is so > > prevalent) that you can say anything you want short of threats of > > violence and it IS NOT "assault". > > Was the Starbucks Patio visible from a 'public' area, like the sidewalk? > Then one could argue you don't have much of an expectation of privacy.
So Polish law is interesting here: basically, one can make a picture without consent of people visible on the picture as long as they are not the apparent topic of the picture. I.e. you can have a picture of a public space with some random tourists, and you can publish that on the Internet without asking these tourists for approval. On the other hand, if you make a picture of a particular person or persons, even in a public setting, where they are apparently the topic of the picture, it's illegal without their consent. It's obviously a bit of a blurred line, but I think it's a much better way of handling this than "if you're in a public space, you have no expectation of privacy" bullshit. Privacy is a bit more complicated than that. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał "rysiek" Woźniak Zmieniam klucz GPG :: http://rys.io/pl/147 GPG Key Transition :: http://rys.io/en/147
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