RE: FW: Windows Live and Privacy

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

   >>> 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. 

Some more examples:

   http://www.komu.com/news/slideshow2/pages/Photography%20prohibited.htm
   http://www.boingboing.net/2005/03/19/gallery_of_port_auth.html
   http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=608617&referrerid=75090
   http://ajerig.tripod.com/personal/photoprohib.htm
   http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/07/security_risks_3.html
   http://www.sbbowl.com/ConcertRules.htm
   http://www.ediblebrain.com/hyperspace/area51/intoit.htm
   http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/44341/45051.html?1162985837

Richard

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