Re: FW: Windows Live and Privacy

["Dennis Henderson" <hendomatic () gmail com>]

On 12/4/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
>   >>> In the US (at least) I am free to take a photograph from a public
> place
>   >>> of virtually anything (so long as I'm not peeping through your
> windows).
>
> News to me.  Over the past few years, I've been yelled at for taking a
> photo
> of a sign inside of an airport about the U.S. Visit program, a
> surveillance
> camera at a Starbucks, and the Wynn Casino in Las Vegas while it was under
> construction.  Here in Boston, the MBTA prohibits photos of subways and
> buses without permission and people have been known to be questioned by
> the
> police for taking photos of the large LNG tank along side the Southeast
> Expressway.
>
> I'm sure you would risk arrest if your started talking photos of children
> at
> the local playground without the permission of their parents.  Cops also
> don't seem to like to have their photos taken either.  Even folks simply
> walking down the street will probably be less than thrilled about having
> their photos taken without their permission.



Totally irrelevant to copyright and relevant to security measures.

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