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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 183143" data-attributes="member: 12827">Personally I think the judge got it WAY wrong on this one. People DO have a right and an expectation of privacy in their own homes, without some perv with a long lens taking photos of them in potentially embarrasing or compromising situations and without their knowledge in the interest of &quot;art&quot;. If you are walking down a public street or are in a public space, you really cannot really have an expectation of privacy but in your own home you most certainly should have. Now the photo in the article shows a man sleeping on his couch with his face completely obscured, not a big deal, but what about (as an example)&nbsp; a woman in her bedroom who has removed her clothes in the process of getting ready for bed and has forgotten to draw the curtains? That is an egregious violation of her privacy. Should she be penailzed or humiliated because she forgot to close her curtains one night and some perve with a long lens happens to see it and snap some photos? That is not art, at least not in my opinion at least.If you ask me the photographer is a creep and probably has a more than few emotional issues. People like that give the rest of us a bad name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 183143, member: 12827"] Personally I think the judge got it WAY wrong on this one. People [I][B]DO[/B][/I] have a right and an expectation of privacy [I][B]in their own homes[/B][/I], without some perv with a long lens taking photos of them in potentially embarrasing or compromising situations and without their knowledge in the interest of "art". If you are walking down a public street or are in a public space, you really cannot really have an expectation of privacy but in your own home you most certainly should have. Now the photo in the article shows a man sleeping on his couch with his face completely obscured, not a big deal, but what about (as an example) a woman in her bedroom who has removed her clothes in the process of getting ready for bed and has forgotten to draw the curtains? That is an egregious violation of her privacy. Should she be penailzed or humiliated because she forgot to close her curtains one night and some perve with a long lens happens to see it and snap some photos? That is not art, at least not in my opinion at least. If you ask me the photographer is a creep and probably has a more than few emotional issues. People like that give the rest of us a bad name. [/QUOTE]

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