Photography And Privacy Laws?

FIRST of all if they are taking pictures of DOGS then it certainly doesnt violate any privacy laws... SECONDLY even if they were taking pictures of other people if they are in a public place then it does not violate privacy laws to take the pictures... IF they were to take a picture of a person and then wanted to publish that pic in a newspaper or say a televison show they would have to get a consent form signed by the person in order to do that or that would violate privacy laws without the consent form...BUT they can be used for personal use such as the scrap book without the consent form providied the scrapbooks are NOT being duplicated and sold... Any time you are in a public place you can take any pics you want.... You can not publish in any way a pic of someone without their consent and you can not go into private areas and take pics of people without their consent.

There would only be a problem if one of the owners were to have a problem with it and make a big deal. Obviously the pet owners see the book in the waiting area and if the requested that their pets not be placed in there and you place them in there then there could be an issue. Also as long as the cell phone pictures are taken and never placed on line or anything like that there should not be an issue, however, if they were to post a picture of someone's pet on line with out their permission their could be an issue.

I didn't know there are privacy laws for dogs as well. If that is the case, I think a lot of us would be in trouble! Cos Taking pictures of birds, cats, dogs, guinea pigs... etc are all illegal! We need to get the animal lawyer to consent their use! Tell your co-worker not to be silly! As long as the dogs are not in any position where they are being tortured or anything like that, there is no harm in taking pictures!

Then your co-worker doesn't know his assets from his elbow...LOL. If these photos were commercially published then there might be an issue, but since they seem to be used for private use there shouldn't be a problem, and it's not like the photos posted in the scrapbook is a published item for sale--tell him he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about

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