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Some businesses have long had policies against photography, enforced to varying degrees. I was once at a gas station and noticed an increasingly-rare payphone,
by tjr 14y ago
Some businesses have long had policies against photography, enforced to varying degrees. I was once at a gas station and noticed an increasingly-rare payphone, and whipped out my SLR camera from the backseat to take a picture. As soon as I did, an employee emerged from inside the shop and told me to stop taking pictures.
I'm not sure what damage it could have done, but it is their own private property, so they have that right. I could have elected to stand on the public sidewalk and take a picture of the payphone with a 400mm lens, but I just wasn't that interested.
- SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago> I'm not sure what damage it could have done, but it is their own private property, so they have that right. TFA draws a distinction between cameras and assisted vision systems. It's like asking people to remove hearing aids because no sound recording is allowed. That "right" is going to become unenforceable as technologies like this and google glass become more common.
- joezydeco 14y agoI'd expect this to become more commonplace as stores fight the "showrooming" trend. Customers walk into stores, try things out, then snap a picture of the barcode to compare to the Amazon price.