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Taken photos Without Consent.

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choille
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Does anyone know if someone can take photos inside your home without your knowledge. This was done to someone I know and they are quite disturbed to find this out. It was someone they know & they did this whilst the owner and her husband were out of the room & they have shown these images of their house and contents to others.

It's quite creepy. Is it legal?
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  • BobQ
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    choille wrote: »
    does anyone know if someone can take photos inside your home without your knowledge. This was done to someone i know and they are quite disturbed to find this out. It was someone they know & they did this whilst the owner and her husband were out of the room & they have shown these images of their house and contents to others.

    It's quite creepy. Is it legal?

    off topic......................
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
  • phillw
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    edited 27 March 2019 at 1:17AM
    choille wrote: »
    Does anyone know if someone can take photos inside your home without your knowledge.

    Yes obviously they can take them.

    If they are on your property with permission and you haven't told them they can't take pictures then I don't believe you can do anything about it.
  • Norman_Castle
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    choille wrote: »
    It's quite creepy. Is it legal?
    I expect the legality would centre on the purpose and use of the pictures. If they were used to humiliate someone they might be considered harassment.
    Why did they take the pictures and show them to others?
  • choille
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    They were used to show others the inside of their home & contents - which is a bit strange.

    The person has only found out about this and is unsettled by it.
  • System
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    No different from smoking in someone else's house without permission, browsing their computer, flipping through their photo albums and copying a few pictures, helping themselves to fruit from a bowl, playing their music.


    Absolutely fine - just part of the discourteous way people expect to behave nowadays. :)
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  • phillw
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    Clifford_Pope wrote: »
    No different from smoking in someone else's house without permission, browsing their computer, flipping through their photo albums and copying a few pictures, helping themselves to fruit from a bowl, playing their music.


    Absolutely fine - just part of the discourteous way people expect to behave nowadays. :)

    They could prosecute using a computer without permission as it uses extra electricity (at least that is how they prosecute remotely accessing a computer without permission).

    Copying pictures without permission would be a copyright violation.

    Helping yourself to fruit without permission is theft.

    Smoking without permission could potentially be anti social behaviour.

    The police might not be bothered to investigate, especially if there is no evidence.
  • choille
    choille Posts: 9,710 Forumite
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    I suppose if they were celebrities they could sue for something? ....Invasion of privacy? I don't know.
  • phillw
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    choille wrote: »
    I suppose if they were celebrities they could sue for something? ....Invasion of privacy? I don't know.

    You could try the European Court for Human Rights as we currently have the right to private life.
  • choille
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    Do we?

    That would be a while before that would be heard by that time we probably will have left the EU?
  • BobQ
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    phillw wrote: »
    You could try the European Court for Human Rights as we currently have the right to private life.

    But the right to a private life would not be infringed if you invite the person in and leave them to do as they please.
    Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.
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