[zmgsabst]

I think you should be fined for posting pictures of people publicly without their consent.

None of those things require you to invade their privacy and enjoyment of public space — you’re just negatively impacting them because you’re lazy and antisocial.

Fines are how we handle such nuisances in other cases.

[crazygringo]

Nothing requires you to get upset about showing up in the background of someone's photo either. As far as I can tell, you're the one being antisocial because you're trying to make demands on what people do with their photos just because you happened to be in the frame. And it's not like they're trying to sell the photos or anything.

And fines aren't some kind of innocent thing. If you don't pay the fines, the police come to seize your property. If you resist, you go to jail. That's what you want?

Again, that's just not the world I want to live in.

[zmgsabst]

You’re the one trying to include people in your photos without their consent.

Everyone should be allowed to enjoy public spaces without you imposing on them for your activities — and that includes you taking photos.

Nothing about their desire not to be photographed requires that you not take photographs — just that if you do, without their permission and with identifiable features showing, you’ll have to take a few seconds to blur that before you upload it publicly.

Yes — that’s absolutely an antisocial imposition on their enjoyment.

And yes — you should be fined for doing that.

[crazygringo]

> You’re the one trying to include people in your photos without their consent.

You don't think people just happen to be in the background?

> Everyone should be allowed to enjoy public spaces without you imposing on them for your activities — and that includes you taking photos.

No, they shouldn't. It's a balance. When people play frisbee, that's "imposing" on me too, because it's not easy for me to put a blanket down in the middle of their game. Should they be fined too? I don't think so. I think I can just live with the inconvenience of walking 30 more seconds.

And I don't even know what you're talking about with blurring people's faces being so easy. My camera app doesn't do that. And even if it did, manually clicking on every single face in all 40 photos from the park that don't belong to my friends and family? No thanks. People can live with their faces in the background online, just like I can live with people playing frisbee where I'd rather be sitting.

I mean, what's next -- I'm not allowed to quote things people say in public and attribute it to them? I'm not allowed to say so-and-so was in this public park in a blog post? You don't have privacy in public places, because they're public.