paparazzi

Then again maybe the whole thing is just exaggeration designed to give paparazzi nightmares about having their retinas burned.

My company considers $4,800 a year in bribes to Squidoo as evil as an e-paparazzi goblin.

This is almost akin to a celebrity getting upset and punching a paparazzi.

Sleazy paparazzi can exist in the world without breaking the law, but I expected more than that from Mozilla.

The personality rights probably have no bearing with respect to paparazzi photos.

Can I use them as paparazzi use their public photographs?

Please don't become the technorati paparazzi.

It's harassment, like what paparazzi do.

We’ve added pictures (if cave painting don’t count, are paparazzi snaps of Kardashian’s arse out too?) and video, 3d images, seismographic data and a whole lot of other stuff to that pile.

Most people would probably agree that the paparazzi taking sneaky pictures of celebrities buying milk at Kroger aren't being very classy, but they'll also probably say it's fair game at that point.

The regulation is good, in that it protects an individual's privacy from those who could harm them with it (for example, the insurance industry, the paparazzi, your employers), but it also harms initiatives which aim only for good.

I imagine this is mostly a problem when in dock, or at anchor, where the paparazzi are probably all in one location (or a few), so the search space could be very quickly narrowed down by a human.

Finally, a lot of the paparazzi style "journalism" is illegal in Germany although there is a lot of leeway for celebrities and politicians ("Personen der Zeitgeschichte").

I choose to stay right out of that game for those reasons - but you only need to look at the paparazzi industry to know that when the money is right, people are happy to do impolite, dangerous, immoral, and illegal things to "get the shot".

>"intermeddling with goods belonging to someone else, or altering their condition, is a trespass to goods and will entitle the photographer to claim compensation without having to prove loss." The goods belonging to someone else (paparazzi) ARE photographs with a bolt of light.

Paparazzi, dog-washers and all-night pizza deliverymen are useless for all but the people who demand their services.

Paparazzi also existed long before the Internet.

Paparazzi have no problem selling exclusive photos.