Comments on: Should Data Take-Down be a Right? http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/05/should-data-take-down-be-a-right.html Musings on technology, the Web, mobility and beyond Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:09:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/05/should-data-take-down-be-a-right.html/comment-page-1#comment-325641 David Sun, 26 Jun 2011 15:04:31 +0000 http://www.torgo.com/blog/?p=345#comment-325641 Taking pictures of people in public whom you don't know is not illegal. You don't need their permission to include them in your pictures. Taking a picture of a person in "private places" within the public space is illegal. e.g. in a washroom stall or a changing room at the apparel store. Images and information stored with a business (regardless of their online and offline presence) are private and are subject to privacy laws. I think the debate hinges on whether we deem social networking sites to be a public space, or we deem them to be a private place perhaps from the angle of information stored with a business. Taking pictures of people in public whom you don’t know is not illegal. You don’t need their permission to include them in your pictures. Taking a picture of a person in “private places” within the public space is illegal. e.g. in a washroom stall or a changing room at the apparel store.

Images and information stored with a business (regardless of their online and offline presence) are private and are subject to privacy laws.

I think the debate hinges on whether we deem social networking sites to be a public space, or we deem them to be a private place perhaps from the angle of information stored with a business.

]]> By: David Mery http://www.torgo.com/blog/2009/05/should-data-take-down-be-a-right.html/comment-page-1#comment-248562 David Mery Thu, 21 May 2009 17:37:57 +0000 http://www.torgo.com/blog/?p=345#comment-248562 Data take down is only one tactic of a larger issue, and one that is not working well as the Cambridge research you mention has shown. I favour an approach based on information accountability and wrote up on this at http://gizmonaut.net/blog/writing/2008/09/information_accountability.html You may also be interested by Bruce Schneier's essay at http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/02/privacy_in_the.html br -d Data take down is only one tactic of a larger issue, and one that is not working well as the Cambridge research you mention has shown. I favour an approach based on information accountability and wrote up on this at
http://gizmonaut.net/blog/writing/2008/09/information_accountability.html

You may also be interested by Bruce Schneier’s essay at
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/02/privacy_in_the.html

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