They are public spaces for the purposes of privacy law. People may have no expectations of privacy in the saloon of a train, or any other public transport.
We can agree it is bad manners if it is a member of staff, on duty, and especially if they have sold it to the press.
Not Margot’s friend, it’s her twin sister. Robbie is one of those modern names people have now. I believe they’re both actors in those new fangled talkies
They may be considered private land, but there’s no expectation of privacy there - unlike being in your own back yard, for example.
GDPR deals with Personally Identifiable Information, so a photo is not covered by GDPR unless it’s used to identify an individual, such as passing it through a facial recognition system.
They are, thankfully for the employee, not CCTV images, which should be a very definite disciplinary offence as any CCTV footage is tightly controlled by law.
Although she may now choose the hopefully more professional attitude of the staff on board a private jet next time!
But some of the most informative photos of the 1920s, 30s, 40s etc. show ordinary people going about their lives. They would be so much less atmospheric and informative if all the faces were blurred out.
Absolutely agreed; this is a completely different concept.
Exactly this.
Indeed; I've worked in a couple of sectors where it I had acted this way, I could have expected severe disciplinary action and perhaps even been sacked.
You are making a false equivalence; you've not visited someone's workplace and had an employee do this to you, have you?
I agree it's not a crime. It's a disciplinary matter.
I don't think anyone should be photographed by an employee of the provider of the service they are using and have the photograph provided to the press, regardless of the industry they work in.
It's clearly unacceptable conduct for an employee to do this; it brings the employer into disrepute.
This is how Reach Plc work. They copy/paste all their "journalism" to all of their "local news" properties, slap a few hundred ads on top and then profit each month. It doesn't matter if the news story is relevant to the local are or not.
Almost all the ..... Live websites are run by Reach plc. I monitor a few from Liverpool Echo to Cornwall Live for stories about places I visit down the west of the UK and there is a lot of sharing or stories despite coverage areas sometimes being miles away.
It is a Reach PLC website which will contain vast quantities of celebrity-related clickbait of no relevance whatsoever to Coventry.
You are thinking of a long gone era of local news publications being created by local people.
It's always important to know who you can trust not to take the micky
It's not any where near as close to upskirting.
Agreed, and the owner of the land has the right to set restrictions on whether or not someone on their land is allowed to take photos. However, I think there is a difference between land ownership, and what is considered public space in respect of privacy laws.
I know what you mean but I don't think there's any seats from the position where the picture has been taken. That's the first class wheelchair space and there's two, one on each side of the coach. Obviously it could have been taken by someone in a wheelchair but I think the angle is wrong for that as well! I suspect it's someone just stood up but holding their phone low down as if they're looking at something on the screen rather taking a picture.
You might well be right. It looks as though it's the half-carriage of first class. It also looks as though the second photo was taken at Newcastle station (you can see the Voyager out of the window) so perhaps during a crew change or similar?
Yeah that would track I think!
Indeed, shame really how low that the operator has gotten. As far as I can tell morale at LNER is in the toilet and has been for a while. Real shame as in their various incarnations the one thing that they always had going for them was, with a few notable exceptions, excellent staff.
