Invasion of privacy laws.

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Anarchist420

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The illegality of invading someone's privacy from your own property has really boggled my mind for quite long time now.

I hate it when these actresses abuse the state by trying to sue a person who takes a picture of them while they're nudely sunbathing, and the person who takes a picture of them isn't even on the actress's property.

Don't you think it should be legal to cyberstalk people, take photos of nude people from your own property (or public property using your own camera), and even post them on the internet from your own computer (or a public computer)?

If you invade someone's privacy you may cause them emotional distress, but causing someone emotional distress isn't violating their right to self-ownership because people choose to get happy, angry, sad, whatever. Not everyone reacts the same way. You didn't violate their body. I can't change anyone's emotions. Emotions come from within.

I don't think people would stalk people anyway, because they wouldn't want anyone to retaliate.
 
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Vette73

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BurnItDwn

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I think it depends a lot on the context.

Somebody that sees something really cool or really strange or really funny who takes a picture and posts it is a lot different than a papparazzi photographer who will break all kinds of laws, do whatever's necessary to get "that perfect shot", in order to make money off of the celebrity some way or another.

That said, if you are your own property, and you photograph whatever you see from your own property, I don't think you should need consent.... But, That does not give somebody the right to stalk or harrass somebody either....

So, my opinion is take as much pictures as you like, but don't harrass ...

The question is ... where do you draw the line?

I don't have an answer for that
 
sportage

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Some lady took a rear shot of me and 3 visiting friends walking nude along blacks beach in san diego in the 1986. I WANT THAT PICTURE BACK !
(or at least can I get a copy???,???,???)
 
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CycloWizard

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I don't think "cyberstalking" should be a crime. If you post information about yourself online, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. Paparazzi are annoying as hell, but they are the perfect example of something that would disappear in a matter of days if there were no market for their product. I hope I never become famous because I'm pretty sure I'd run a few of them over.

Regarding your claim that people choose to become angry, I don't think that's really the case. We don't choose our emotions - we choose how we react to them. Emotions are naturally intended to short-circuit our thought processes and lead us to taking actions that we wouldn't necessarily take if we had time to think about what we were doing.
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Speaking of trolls... If you have nothing to say, piss off.
 
jonks

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CycloWizard said:
I don't think "cyberstalking" should be a crime. If you post information about yourself online, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
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I can only assume your definition of cyberstalking is pretty narrow, like visiting someone's webpage. That's not cyberstalking. Cyberstalking includes online harassment, unwanted repeated emails/IMs, "following" you online (posting after you on message boards, amazon.com reviews, facebook likes) or tracking your location. These things are creepy to a reasonable person, and probably more so to females, who tend to be the targets of stalking far more than men. I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to maintain perfect anonymity online just to avoid harassment any more than it's reasonable to avoid being followed home by never leaving your home.

Given how just about everything will be online in a few years I think it would be short sighted to take such a narrow approach.
 
DrPizza

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Wow, usually your troll threads look like the efforts of a 16 year old. This one sounds like a 14 year old wrote it. You're getting lazy.
 
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CycloWizard

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jonks said:
I can only assume your definition of cyberstalking is pretty narrow, like visiting someone's webpage. That's not cyberstalking. Cyberstalking includes online harassment, unwanted repeated emails/IMs, "following" you online (posting after you on message boards, amazon.com reviews, facebook likes) or tracking your location. These things are creepy to a reasonable person, and probably more so to females, who tend to be the targets of stalking far more than men. I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to maintain perfect anonymity online just to avoid harassment any more than it's reasonable to avoid being followed home by never leaving your home.

Given how just about everything will be online in a few years I think it would be short sighted to take such a narrow approach.
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If I post my every move online, then I have little expectation that people won't know where I am. It takes three seconds to block an e-mail address or IM handle - do we really need more laws to address a trivial problem? Following someone around on message boards or other private sites is again something that can be handled by site policy. No one can harm me by following me around online, but someone can by following me to my house. If it gets to the point where the person is in danger, then it would be covered by existing anti-stalking laws. I think knee-jerking to add new laws to the millions of pages of existing laws opens up more loopholes and complicates things to the point where an innocuous online encounter could be construed as cyber-stalking.
 
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Vette73

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Anarchist420 said:
I'm not trolling:)

I intended for this to be a serious discussion, as I do for all the threads I start thanks to AT:)
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Really then why do they all ask the most dumb things that even a 14 year old is smart enough to not ask and then never pop back in for most of them?
 
Capt Caveman

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Anarchist420 said:
I'm not trolling:)

I intended for this to be a serious discussion, as I do for all the threads I start thanks to AT:)
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Like your last locked thread about the Fed Gov't and to backup your thread, you post a link about the State Gov't?

Either you're a troll, retard or retarded troll...
 
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