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Wes Mantooth · 08-14-2010, 11:17 AM

But how can anyone expect any right to privacy in a public place? What ever you say or do on the side of the road is potentially not only going to be seen/heard by multiple people but the chance also remains that it might be recorded and shown elsewhere. I don't have the right to tell a person recording on the street corner to stop because my likeness or a conversation I'm having winds up in his film...the best I could hope for is maybe a blurred face...if it was going to youtube I really couldn't even hope for that.

I don't know, he's a public servant doing a job paid for by taxpayers while working in a public place how much privacy can or should he really expect?

08-14-2010, 11:17 AM	#13 (permalink)
Wes Mantooth Junkie Location: Tennessee	But how can anyone expect any right to privacy in a public place? What ever you say or do on the side of the road is potentially not only going to be seen/heard by multiple people but the chance also remains that it might be recorded and shown elsewhere. I don't have the right to tell a person recording on the street corner to stop because my likeness or a conversation I'm having winds up in his film...the best I could hope for is maybe a blurred face...if it was going to youtube I really couldn't even hope for that. I don't know, he's a public servant doing a job paid for by taxpayers while working in a public place how much privacy can or should he really expect? __________________ “My god I must have missed it...its hell down here!”