On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:09:21 GMT, "Gary Drescher"
wrote:

"C J Campbell" wrote in message
...

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
...
What authority is needed to take pictures?

There are privacy laws in most states prohibiting people taking pictures
of
you if you don't want them taken, especially if the pictures are being
taken
as a form of intimidation or some other threat such as embarrassment. I
don't know about Massachusetts but across the state line in New York the
privacy laws are very strict indeed.

The law in New York (or anywhere else in the US) prohibits photographing an
unwilling subject in public? That doesn't sound credible. Could you cite the
statute please, or some other source of information concerning it?

--Gary

I have to agree with Gary. When you are in public, you are fair game
for any photography. Infact, there was a case that went to court a
year or so ago where some perv had a camera on his shoe and was
actually walking up to women with skirts on and getting "everything"
on film. He actually won the case because they were in public. I
would have hoped that they would have taken it to the supreme court
but I dont know how far it actually got, but it just goes to show that
when you are in public, you can be photographed, even if you dont
agree to it or not.

Scott D.