Yeah, I've seen many similar instances, such as a man caught urinating by the roadside, a woman getting in or out of her car with her thong exposed... while I agree that all these things are indeed occurring in public and therefore it is not a violation of privacy to post them, even for archival, I simply cannot agree with your statement that the organizations responsible for this dissemination "were not adding to the potential audience." I think that notions of what constitutes privacy will shift gradually. There will /always /be a public/private dichotomy of sometime, IMO. Conor Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:
Not to mention the potential embarrassment to the gentleman from Arizona - I think it was Arizona - who was captured sitting on a park bench picking his nose. The potential embarrassment would be increased - at least in some writers estimation - because all the late night talk show hosts pointed directly at this guy in their monologues...even giving the URL in some cases.
HOWEVER, since the action in question - said nose picking - took place in public and was captured and posted on the web...the late night talk show hosts might have been shining a brighter light on the whole thing but they were not adding to the potential audience.
Lois
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