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The doctrine of public view meaning there are no rights to be enforced is not internationally recognised. Google even gave up on Street View in Germany, despite
by barrkel 7y ago
The doctrine of public view meaning there are no rights to be enforced is not internationally recognised. Google even gave up on Street View in Germany, despite public streets being public.
There are good logical and moral reasons, IMO, why the doctrine is unsound. For example: individual photos are qualitatively different to movies, even though movies are made up of individual photos; the fixed interval conveys speed, which individual photos are quite poor at. Similarly, pervasive photography is different to individual photography: instead of an incident at a single location, someone's whole day may be mapped out, and who they're talking to, etc.
In other words, reasoning about privacy is not transitive or scale invariant. You can't say that the end result is ok or moral based on its component parts. Composition changes the thing qualitatively.