David Honig wrote:
> >said difference? namely the one between manual and automatic data
> >processing.
>
> That's the implementation detail I'm varying in this gedankenexperiment,
> but since when does implementation matter for law/morality?
for the german privacy law: ever since it was made. actually, the spread
of automatic data processing was the reason it was created.
> What if I've got an eidetic memory and 20/10 vision?
as long as you're not a machine, you're fine. :)
> Anything you can see or hear from the street is public domain.
> (in my recollection of US law)
> Telescopes are supposedly invasive; but an optical zoom on a
> videocamera is pretty compact.
according to german law, anything you see/hear on the street is no
problem -IF- you are a human being. if "you" refers to a data-collecting
computer, things become more difficult.
