Comment There was never a reasonable expectation (Score 1) 327
What does "reasonable expectation" actually mean?
For most of the history of human civilization, the reasonable expectation was that, although people could see you in public, and in recent history, people could take photographs, there was never an expectation that it would suddenly be available for the entire world to see, forever, at a click of a button.
By all means we can debate the rights and wrongs, but let's drop this pretence of "reasonable expectation" - that's just a circular argument, as you're starting out with the assumption that it's reasonable.
Now, I think that this guy has every right to photograph in public. But that doesn't stop him being an ass.
What happened to Don't Be Evil? Just because you have a legal right to do something, doesn't mean it's always a good thing to do it. Equally, we have a right to criticise either Google, or this guy.