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Not sure if the door analogy works here. I can't think of a better analogy, but what if I had a Polaroid camera and go around taking pictures in my property an
by saganus 10y ago
Not sure if the door analogy works here.
I can't think of a better analogy, but what if I had a Polaroid camera and go around taking pictures in my property and then throwing those pictures away on the street. If a stranger picks up one (or several) of those pictures, would you consider that trespassing as well?
I'm not saying I am for or against this, but it's definitely a tricky subject. Obviously part of that trickiness is because complex tools (for the general populace) are being sold as simple tools, and so people who buy them have no idea what they are capable of or what is the proper way of using them (securing them with a password, etc).
- tptacek 10y agoThe case might turn on whether the owners of the camera suffer damage (which here means basically "how upset do the owners of the camera get) and whether a reasonable person would feel they'd been invited to watch this particular camera by the owners of the camera. That's a lot of uncertainty to shoulder just for the joy of looking at someone's incidentally public camera feed.