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by ptah 2697 days ago
If you take a picture of a person naked on a beach without their permission, is it ok to use that picture as you like?
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Why should I need their permission when it is a public location? If they don't want to be photographed naked in public, don't go around naked in public.

If I'm a skilled artist and I see a person naked in public without their permission, am I allowed to recall those thoughts and recreate the image in my mind onto paper using my artistic dexterity? Or am I breaking some privacy law by doing so?

> If you take a picture of a person naked on a beach without their permission, is it ok to use that picture as you like?

Sounds like a straw man argument. People voluntarily upload/submit their data to Google, Facebook, etc

They do, but with the intent to share it with their friends, not to have Facebook/Google use them for completely different purposes.