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Subject: Re: [Leica] laws for people photography
From: "animal" <s.jessurun95@chello.nl>
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:01:16 +0100
References: <8D3DDFD3-5096-11D7-9CCD-000393462E70@johnbrownlow.com>

yes i could but i wont
simon

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From: "Johnny Deadman" <lists@johnbrownlow.com>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 1:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] laws for people photography


> Could you name one of these countries?
> 
> Canada is the only country I am aware of where there is any such issue. 
> The Privacy Commissioner has expressed concern about municipalities or 
> law enforcement using widespread surveillance cameras but that 
> certainly doesn't mean there aren't any. There are lots. Moreover there 
> are explicit exceptions within the privacy guidelines for artistic and 
> journalistic endeavors.
> 
> France and Quebec have stiffer privacy laws than other places but this 
> only applies to the publication of photographs NOT the taking of them.
> 
> John Brownlow
> 
> 
> On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 05:25  AM, animal wrote:
> 
> > Some background.The technology now exists to video a street analyze 
> > faces in
> > "real time" and id everybody.In some countries it was decided to outlaw
> > this.So there you need somebodies consent before recording him or her 
> > or
> > their belongings.
> > To call these laws fascistic just shows ignorance.
> > Worse even one could argue the opposite
> > that countries that dont have these laws,
> > usually the same which are not prevented by law to screen their 
> > citizens
> > mail be it electronic or conventional,
> > do not allow a free press anymore in war zones and even have a policy 
> > of
> > active disinformation are
> > at best operating under some sort of martial law.
> > sorry for the ot
> > simon
> 
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