Ethical stuff

Now that image capturing devices are so prevalent there are certain ethical issues, namely privacy. Basically, in public places you can be photographed without consent and your picture used by whoever, for whatever. According to Wikipedia, "in the United States, anything visible ("in plain view") from a public area can be legally photographed. This includes buildings and facilities, people, signage, notices and images. It is not uncommon for security personnel to use intimidation or other tactics to attempt to stop the photographer from photographing their facilities (trying to prevent, e.g., industrial espionage); however, there is no legal precedent to prevent the photographer so long as the image being photographed is in plain view from a public area."

Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_photography on March 9th 2008