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   From: reality@check.it   
      
   "Kent Wills"  wrote in message   
   news:qj43d5p0ldr6fq94hn3ccamd60630bco3a@4ax.com...   
   > On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:40:28 -0500, Deadrat  wrote:   
   >   
   >>Kent Wills  wrote in   
   >>news:iqg0d5dfjducufq2jd9argf3ej13qg4tn9@4ax.com:   
   >>   
   >>> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:48:04 -0700, Evan Platt   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:09:36 -0500, Kent Wills    
   >>>>wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>     Oddly enough, Richard is right.  When one is outside, the   
   >>>>>expectation of privacy is diminished a great deal.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>No, he's not. "Public Domain" refers to something completely   
   >>>>different, not a person being outside and then being photographed.   
   >>>   
   >>>      If you wish to argue semantics,   
   >>   
   >>Which is what happens in the law.   
   >   
   >     But Richard's statement isn't law.   
   >     At least I hope it's not :)   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> then you would be correct.   
   >>> However, Richard's possition, poorly presented as it was, is correct.   
   >>> The OP was outside of his home mowing the lawn.  A photo of him mowing   
   >>> was taken and placed on the web.  I see nothing illegal in this.   
   >>   
   >>And no one is arguing that it is.   
   >   
   >     Maybe I misunderstood the OP's meaning, but I got the feeling he   
   > felt it was in some way illegal.   
      
   No one gives a fuck about the ignorant "feelings" of a convicted garage   
   burglar, Kunt.   
      
      
   >   
   >>   
   >>>      If it were a single person acting on his/her own behalf, maybe,   
   >>> just maybe, a claim of stalking could be made.   
   >>   
   >>Stalking requires a pattern of behavior.   
   >   
   >     True.  That's what I wrote maybe.   
   >     It would be a very hard sell.   
   >   
   >>   
   >>> Whereas the picture   
   >>> was taken as a part of Google's street view, such a claim would be so   
   >>> difficult to prove, one could call it impossible.   
   >>   
   >>Only because of semantics.   
   >   
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   > "Kent"   
      
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