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I think I know the answer to my own question :D but I said I’d check just to be sure. I covered an event over the weekend with the event organizers permission, it was held on open roads and I was photographing from the side pavement. I put the photos up on Facebook and thought very little else about them until I started receiving messages (eight messages from one lady) from a number of ladies who didn’t like their photos as they were looking a bit tired. This is a first for me and I’m wondering from a legal point of view do I have to remove the images.
Thanks.
Dave.
PS. I’ve now removed the images.
From a legal point of view, you are well within your rights to take and post the photos.
They have no right to privacy in a public road/space like that.
So, totally up to you if you want to keep or remove them.
Thanks for your quick response Paul, just as I thought myself. If I didn’t have permission from the organizers would it make any difference.
Thanks again.
Dave.
One of the images was fine, must be incredibly vain :D As for the other image you’d need some size of an air brush. :wink: :wink:
Dave.
Personally I’d leave them. Couldn’t be putting up with that nonsense :) Vanity…
Personally, I’d just remove the images after telling the women that I agree that they don’t look good. :D
Although you are legally entitled to take their photo, I came across this interesting article which could put a different twist on things.
http://www.thejournal.ie/readme/women-who-eat-on-tubes-stranger-shaming-social-media-1403346-Apr2014/” onclick=”window.open(this.href);return false;Hi
I took a look and considering the event(s) involved everyone looked tired!
Maybe the tired thing is a smoke screen and she had thrown a sickie from work????Seaview wrote:
If I didn’t have permission from the organizers would it make any difference.
No, I can’t see how it would make any difference at all. You’re in a public space taking photos of a people in a public space doing a public activity.
As for Data Protection issues/requests, that’s a separate matter. You can have very long winded discussions over it, including some I have had with the DPC. In the end, there have been no case law precedents, that I am aware of, where the DPC have forced removal of photos taken in public for breach of DPA following a subject complaint.
Thanks for the info lads, some interesting reading there, bit of a mine field me thinks. :D I think for most of what I capture I’d be covered under the photo-journalism clause as they’re mostly organized events.
Having read all that, I’m kind of happy I’ve stayed away from street photography :D , now that could be a bit dodgy.
Dave.
I wouldn’t be too worried about the data protection or privacy issues in cases like this. If you were using the images to ridicule your subjects then it could be a different matter.
Seaview wrote:
Having read all that, I’m kind of happy I’ve stayed away from street photography :D , now that could be a bit dodgy.
Dave.
You haven’t lived Dave!
Street Photography is what it’s all about.
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