I caught a bit of an interview on NPR's Fresh AIr show today about
privacy rights. Two random thoughts:
1. The interviewee commented that Europe was much more aggressive about
protecting the rights of the person to their own image, where the US is
more laissez-faire. (Ironic that it takes a French word to express a
core American value.)
2. The guest the got going on about Google street view and it struck me
that this was one extreme of street photography - no artistic merit but
just taking shots of every street, everywhere.
I said they were random.
Mark C.
PS: Around the time I was getting out of my car the interviewee was
commenting about Europe's "Right to Oblivion" laws (IIRC) that allow one
to purge their old posts and photos etc that might be embarrassing. I
wonder how light the PDML archives would get if such a law was passed in
the US...
On 11/30/2011 6:51 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
I think that's been the *LAW* in France since around 2004. Maybe
before that it was just custom. For a country that derives so much of
its GDP from tourism, they don't seem to like tourists very much.
From: "P. J. Alling"
15 Years ago I got the impression that the situation in France was
pretty much the same as that.
On 11/30/2011 6:26 AM, Thibouille wrote:
Thanks to all who responded so far.
Seems the idea was good.
I totally agree with Godfrey on the subject. Of course legal details
are country (or region in federal countries) specific but interesting
nonetheless.
It seems in Qu?bec, street shooting is more or less dead unless you
ask the subject *before* you take the picture. Which completely
annihilates the purpose of the photograph in the first place. Hell...
Any other countries?
Thanks
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