What if you're on the street outside an HIV clinic? Or an abortion clinic? Or an STI clinic? Or a substance misuse clinic? Or a narcotics anonymous meeting?
What if you're on the street, but have clearly just exited the door from that clinic?
This isn't idle noodling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell_v_MGN_Ltd
So there is a specific legal cutout for those cases.
The legal system is not usually made up of complete idiots.
Certainly not. There is the “evil asshole” contingent as well, but I expect a bit of overlap between the two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_Stat...
News coverage is a common exception.
A fraud investigation is not commercial exploitation.
> If you keep trying to draw the line, it gets harder and harder to draw.
You're not qualified to make statements like this.
Maybe, maybe not. Who the f*ck are you? (See how that works?)
You didn’t create it, it’s not original, and yours is 99.9% identical to mine. You cannot copyright or patent it. And you’re pretty sloppy with it, leaving a trail of it everywhere you go.
It’s not reasonable to expect to require permission for someone to use your image that they captured. What if it’s for news purposes? What if it’s related to, say, and insurance fraud investigation? If you keep trying to draw the line, it gets harder and harder to draw.
So what’s reasonable? If you have an expectation of privacy that’s violated, that seems far. But if you do not, i.e. you are in public, you have no such expectation.
Now, photographs shot through a window? Close your blinds or shut up. It’s all up to you.