Do You Take Photos Of Girls On The Street?
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LOL It wouldn't be against the date protection act - that's a law about protecting peoples data, anything from tax to credit card details. It is in place to ensure that you are giving information to the correct person and not someone falsely claimng to be them - well that's it in a nutshell anyway!!
Yeah, but its to do with more than just that. For example, you can request a copy of CCTV footage from any shop if you're on it, and have to pay an administration fee of £10. That is down to the Data Protection Act (if I'm not mistaken). It covers a lot more than you'd think. It has had a huge effect on things like policing, surveillance and the like, due to its ability to cover that sort of thing.
Felthat said:
Felt, would you mind talking a little more about this? You say it's had a huge effect on policing, surveillance, etc. What kind of effect?
I'm starting to agree with the idea that surveillance cameras in public places should be allowed and even encouraged as long as everyone has access to what they see. So, for example, the police would have an easier time catching criminals, but ordinary citizens would also have an easier time monitoring the police for abuse, etc.
Anyway, I'm curious about what kind of effect this act has had.
Basically its made it more difficult to keep tabs on people. Records have to be deleted after a certain time, and only certain agencies are privy to certain information. So it makes cross-agency cooperation far more difficult. Plus, intelligence gathering has been adversely affected, as well as reading what information is stored on known offenders.
The Soham case in the UK, and the uproar about Huntleys records being deleted are intrinsically linked to the DPA.
The implementation of the DPA and the Human Rights Act in the UK have both had a huge effect on a lot of social issues like law enforcement and the like.
So I've heard...
The Soham case in the UK, and the uproar about Huntleys records being deleted are intrinsically linked to the DPA.
The implementation of the DPA and the Human Rights Act in the UK have both had a huge effect on a lot of social issues like law enforcement and the like.
So I've heard...
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I'm not so sure about international law, but in the United States this issue is addressed by the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Essentially, this is a question of a person's "reasonable expectation of privacy." Type that phrase into Google and you'll get a bunch of links. Anyway, the crux of this is that people, in public places, have absolutely NO reasonable expectation of privacy. You go out in public and you accept that people will see you. You EXPECT it. You know the "perils" of it and accept that You Might be photographed or heard, videotaped, recorded on audio, etc.
Conversely, you are at home in your house or apartment. You do NOT expect for some schmuck with his camera to be looking through your window taking pictures of you or listening to your phone calls with a "bug." Pretty simple difference, really, but there have been some tricky scenarios.
Here's an interesting link: http://www.rtndf.org/foi/lalop.html
Essentially, this is a question of a person's "reasonable expectation of privacy." Type that phrase into Google and you'll get a bunch of links. Anyway, the crux of this is that people, in public places, have absolutely NO reasonable expectation of privacy. You go out in public and you accept that people will see you. You EXPECT it. You know the "perils" of it and accept that You Might be photographed or heard, videotaped, recorded on audio, etc.
Conversely, you are at home in your house or apartment. You do NOT expect for some schmuck with his camera to be looking through your window taking pictures of you or listening to your phone calls with a "bug." Pretty simple difference, really, but there have been some tricky scenarios.
Here's an interesting link: http://www.rtndf.org/foi/lalop.html
Mantaroth said:
Felthat said:Basically its made it more difficult to keep tabs on people. Records have to be deleted after a certain time, and only certain agencies are privy to certain information. So it makes cross-agency cooperation far more difficult. Plus, intelligence gathering has been adversely affected, as well as reading what information is stored on known offenders.
The Soham case in the UK, and the uproar about Huntleys records being deleted are intrinsically linked to the DPA.
The implementation of the DPA and the Human Rights Act in the UK have both had a huge effect on a lot of social issues like law enforcement and the like.
So I've heard...
Cool. Thanks for sharing that, Felthat. I'm always interested in what's going on in the realm of privacy and surveillance, and wondering what the future will hold.
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