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Well, there are some provisions in California and other states meant to prevent photos only possible telephoto lens being taken of private property, because of
by sfrailsdev 10y ago
Well, there are some provisions in California and other states meant to prevent photos only possible telephoto lens being taken of private property, because of photos of celebrities. Not sure what the legal consensus is on these, but I suspect there will be more consideration of such laws as drones become more normal and provide viewing angles that let you see over privacy fences.
But a building without a private residence is fair game.
- ShakataGaNai 10y agoThe tldr on most laws about telephoto/private property/etc is "reasonable expectation of privacy". For example: If you stand on the sidewalk and take a picture of someone sunbathing nude on their front lawn, 10 feet away. Assuming there is no fence, you're perfectly in the right. Flip side someone sunbathing nude in their backyard with 10 foot fences, if you took a picture of them say using a drone... then they can go after you because they had a "reasonable expectation of privacy". Same thing with famous people in their backyard and the paparazzi who get out the 800mm lenses and take pictures from the next mountain over. The famous person could reasonably expect some privacy in their backyard.
- gohrt 10y ago"reasonable expectation" constantly changes in response to technology. The police and courts are fond of reminding citizens that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy when they store documents in cloud storage, for example.
- Finnucane 10y agoGenerally, in the US, whatever is "normally in public view", such as a facade visible from the street, is fair game. Poking into someone's window is not. Some countries, Germany for instance, have more restrictive laws about photographing private property.