"Cub Driver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
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Generally, if you take the photo from a public place, such as a public
sidewalk, the subject has no say. The way it was worded that even if you
took a picture of someone in their bedroom, while standing on a public
sidewalk, you didn't need the subjects permission.

Not very good advice unless your goal in life is to be a papparizo!

It depends. The benchmark cases for these rules are complex and gruesome.
But the long and short of it is, if you can see it from public property it's
fair game, which has been deemed a generally good thing. The moral/ethical
particulars of the situation fall upon the photographer to determine whether
it's appropriate to take a photograph.

The scumbag paparazzi have managed to exploit some hard ethical decisions,
but that's not radically different than people who exploit freedom in any
context for their own gain at the expense or embarrassment of others. (Just
because you can sneak a camera onto a beach and take close-up photos of
girls in bikinis doesn't make it right.) They get away with it, though,
just like the hate groups that parade in public can.

-c