On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 03:12 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 02:33 PM 04/25/2003 -0700, Major Variola (ret) wrote:
Teacher sets up drug dealer 'web watch' A teacher sick of drug dealers and addicts in his neighbourhood has taken the drastic measure of posting their pictures on the internet.
John Messiter says he has decided to secretly photograph those terrorising the area and make their images public. http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_773853.html?menu=news.technology
Interesting privacy/public and libel implications in the latter.
There are two categories of people he's likely to photograph - Real drug dealers and users - Falsely accused drug dealers and users The latter should be able to sue him for libel, which is too easy in Britain, modulo a few issues about whether web photographs are libel or slander. Some of the former might also try that, but it's probably too risky, and the black market has other ways to provide legal services and conflict resolution to people who can't use official courts....
He doesn't have to "falsely accuse" _anyone_. All he does is to demonstrate (claim) that various people are at some location. Those who visit his site are free to draw their own conclusions. --Tim May "He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -- Nietzsche