Article on Border Train Inspections in Sun NYT

[guest]

I suggest you all click on the link to the Syracuse University student's 5-minute multimedia essay from 2008 ("Caught in Transit"). It is pretty interesting (though I, too, wonder about getting permission from all the people in the pictures for publishing it on the Web).

If the photograph is taken in a public area, and the person in question is not the primary focus of the picture, I don't believe you need to get permission.

Unless you're using your photos for commercial gain, you can take pictures of anything that you see from a public space.

OK. I stand corrected. In general, if I am taking picture of someone as the central subject of a photo I tend to ask them as a matter of courtesy. It is a habit formed of dealing with many cultures, in case of some where getting photographed is considered negatively. I have no reason to offend individuals like that personally.

Of course, with some people in the US, if you get close to them and take photos with asking, and they don't like it, you could end up with a camera shoved up your face.

No matter the culture, courtesy goes a long way, something that many, many Americans have apparently forgotten.

 

[amamba]

Today's editorial in the NYTimes tells us what the NYT editors really think about this practice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/opinion/01wed2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

 

[Ryan]

Well written.

 

[dlagrua]

Here is a good video to watch and its not a political view. When I write here I speak as an American not as a slave to the left or right.

http://wn.com/Screening_The_TSA

This video is from 60 minutes and is pretty easy on the TSA but its not entirely accurate. The truth of the matter is that TSA is being developed and shaped into a quasi military operation and that is scary.