Re: Legality of photographing a train driver in their cab driving

"Chris Morrison" <chris-morrison@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
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> I wonder if someone can clarify a point with has been getting some rather
> heated discussion in the canteen at work of late.
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> Yesterday, the Evening Standard published several pictures taken by a
member
> of the public, from a footbridge, of Northern Line train drivers in their
> cabs supposedly being distracted while driving a train at 35mph.
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> I would like to emphasise at this point that I am not initiating a debate
on
> whether or not these drivers where in the wrong. If they have endangered
the
> lives of their passengers then they deserve all they get.
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> The point I have been arguing is whether or not the law has been broken
and
> an offence committed by:
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> - This individual by taking these pictures.
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> - The individual by sending them to the Evening Standard.
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> - The Evening Standard by publishing them.
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> The pictures concerned where extremely clear, high-quality, and very close
> up shots of drivers in their driving cabs taken without their consent or
> knowledge in which they could be clearly identified. This person has
> obviously set up a camera on a tripod with a zoom-lens, photographing the
> drivers of oncoming trains.
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> I know (correct me if I am wrong) that if I was to go out with a camera
and
> take close up pictures of people in the street without their consent, I
> would be braking the law.
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> Surely the same thing applies here?
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> Train drivers are not Hollywood celebrities; surely they would have a
> reasonable expectation of privacy while doing their jobs, and not to have
> their picture taken and slapped all over the newspapers without their
> permission.
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> Regards,
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> Chris
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While at it , was there not some law about not taking
photographs in the neighbourhood of law courts, not
just inside of courts.

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