None of this gets anyone any further than the simple idea of courtesy raised by Ian Buckland - what is so important about photography that it sweeps away the common courtesy of asking if people mind? Or don't photographers care?
Tim Turner
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> Subject: Re: [data-protection] Photographs in Public
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> ** Reply to note from [log in to unmask] Fri, 9 Jan 2004 11:51:19 -0000
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>
> > I'm not sure why everyone is so paranoid about being photographed in public.
> > Who wants to be one of Michael Jackson's kids wearing scarves or masks
> > everywhere they go...... After all, I personally am already under the
> > scrutiny of dozens of CCTV cameras from the second I walk out of my front
> > door each morning until I such time as I actually sit down at my desk at
> > work. So what if I'm caught on camera at a football match. I'm proud to be
> > seen in the West Stand at Highbury any day of the week. I can even remember
> > pulling up next to a No. 52 bus at a set of traffic lights on my Vespa one
> > afternoon, and turning round to see somebody pointing their mobile phone at
> > my through the window. They turned the phone round, showing me the digital
> > photo they had just taken of me. I gave a smile, a thumbs up and drove off.
> > I haven't the foggiest idea why they wanted to take a photograph of me, but
> > who cares. (Does my bum look big on this Vespa?) And for the record, the
> > fact that I gave them a thumbs up constitutes "consent" in my book. And I
> > think that if you point a camera at someone and they smile back at you,
> > that's "consent" too.
>
> No Antoinette, you look fine on the Vespa :-)
>
> Which nicely takes us back to the point of two people posing in front of a church. I
> hear all the judgement that has been passed whilst there is extremely little informaiton
> to go on with. Photographer found guilty. Children in playground, any male that looks
> in their direction guilty as charged. Having a camera with you means you are in for at
> least paedophilia (thus photographing animals you are in for another ...philia).
>
> You know, animals are always in the nude. Watch out next time you visit a zoo.
>
> Without seing the picture is not as straight forward to judge, and by seing it, it does
> not mean a better judgement could be made. But why doesn't anyone give a chance
> for the photographer that he did ask for permission? Yeap, we know he does not
> have it in writing. I wonder if the photographer used a 5x4 or a throw away digital
> camera to take the photo.
>
> Yo, *do gooders* that you want to stop me taking photographs. Do something
> useful:
> 1. roast some children after birth
> 2. lock all ugly people in their houses
> and let us get on with life.
>
> Charles
>
> PS. I do take photographs but I find that people simply spoil them.
>
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