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Is this correct, pictures published of Kate knickerless?

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MrsjREwing · 29/09/2012 06:18

DM can't have this righ can they?

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WipsGlitter · 29/09/2012 08:47

Yes. If you google Kate bottomless then you can see them. She's changing her bikini bottoms.

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Cordrazine · 29/09/2012 08:57

Yeah, I've just seen them on a link from google news. Thankfully, in the ones I've seen, she is bent over with a towel over her and its poor quality, really long lens so you can't really see anything.

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AViewfromtheFridge · 29/09/2012 09:52

The worst thing is that she's clearly trying to protect her modesty by doing it under a towel, but unknowingly is actually facing the photographers. What a set of bastards.

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diddl · 29/09/2012 11:57

I wonder why she´s using a towel?

If it was me & I thought that I was secluded/unobserved, I´d just change!

Not suggesting she knows about the photographer-but perhaps staff are nearby?

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MrsCampbellBlack · 29/09/2012 12:30

I just really don't get how its legal to publish such photos - I mean to me that's a sexual offence really. Its horrid voyeurism isn't it? I feel very sorry for her indeed.

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diddl · 29/09/2012 12:40

Yes, you´d think that they would be illegal to take, let alone publish.

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diddl · 29/09/2012 12:42

And that spying on people in a private place through a long lens would be illegal.

If there wasn´t a capability to take a pic, wouldn´t it be voyeurism?

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Machadaynu · 29/09/2012 12:48

Does anyone know what the law actually is on this?

I am guessing that either it's illegal but the punishment would be a fine less than the value of the pictures, or it is legal to take a picture of someone in public no matter what they are doing?

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cutegorilla · 29/09/2012 12:53

Poor girl. She's never ever going to be able to relax is she. Even when she thinks she's in private she's not. Proper gilded cage she's in.

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SoupDragon · 29/09/2012 12:56

?It?s a set of unique photos from an A-class celebrity. It is my job to publish them.?

What a wanker.

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diddl · 29/09/2012 12:57

I have a feeling that the penalty fine makes it worthwhile.

I think for me the issue about this was also that they were in a pretty private place.

I don´t know.

maybe she shouldn´t have done it "just in case".

But I think that if she a was snapped changing her bottoms-which I´m thinking wouldn´t take that long-then there was obviously someone ready & waiting with a long lens trained on them/the area.

Horrible thought.

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diddl · 29/09/2012 12:58

"?It?s a set of unique photos from an A-class celebrity. It is my job to publish them.? "

This is the other thjing though-when did they become celebs such that it is thought that there is such interest in their every movement & her every outfit?

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SoupDragon · 29/09/2012 12:59

I"d love to get similar photos of the loved ones of the people involved and publish those. See how OK they are about it then.

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wannabedomesticgoddess · 29/09/2012 13:08

If a man was standing in the bushes with a normal camera or no camera at all surely he would be arrested for voyeurism? Or some other sexual offence?

But because this man is a pap and she is a person of interest its ok to publish indecent photos. Hmm

Its a disgrace and it has to stop.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 29/09/2012 13:31

It is perfectly legal to take pictures of people in a private place from a public place.

The question is whether it is an invasion of privacy. The argument is that as Kate was out in the open where she could be seen by anybody she had no reasonable expectation of privacy.

It may not be moral, but there is a good chance it is legal.

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diddl · 29/09/2012 13:58

"It is perfectly legal to take pictures of people in a private place from a public place."

Then where does the needing a long lens to do it come into the equation?

I doubt that she could just be seen by anybody just walking/driving by though..

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 29/09/2012 14:06

But the picture was taken from a public place. And she was out in the open. Just because you are in the middle of nowhere doesn't mean you can expect privacy...

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diddl · 29/09/2012 14:44

I agree.

But to what lengths is it acceptable for someone to take a photo?

Staring through a long lens for hours on end & then taking loads when tops/bottoms are taken off?

I say if a long lens was needed then it´s no go.

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edam · 29/09/2012 15:10

It isn't legal to publish pictures taken in a place where the subject has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the UK. Human Rights Act.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 29/09/2012 15:12

But the problem is "reasonable expectation of privacy" is a very wooly definition, what does it actually mean?

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ExitPursuedByJKR · 29/09/2012 15:19

I read in an article in the paper the other day that there were photos of her taking her bikini bottoms off, and I felt a bit sick. Poor woman. The topless photos were bad enough but this is just beyond the pale.

Another sentence that chilled my spine was that their as yet unconceived child is the world's most famous yet to be born celebrity.

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edam · 29/09/2012 15:22

Reasonable expectation of privacy would clearly apply to the house where Kate and William were staying, where they weren't visible from the road - the snapper was something like a mile away.

It also applies to the street if it's directly outside a Narcotics Anonymous meeting - see Naomi Campbell v. the Mirror.

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MissBeehivingUnderTheMistletoe · 29/09/2012 15:27

It is really hard to understand how this is "newsworthy" - we need to stop buying the dross it's printed in.

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WipsGlitter · 29/09/2012 15:49

It's not news, but neither is 95% of the stuff in the papers. The fact it's lrinted is almost irrelevant as most people will see them on the Internet. I feel very sorry for her, it's a hard lesson to learn.

But aside from that even if I was miles from nowhere I'd still probably go inside to change my bikini bottoms.

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Machadaynu · 29/09/2012 15:49

Buy it? I'm sure you can just google for them (but I'm at work so I can't)

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