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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (548168)	2/4/2010 11:14:34 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578446

If I take embarrassing photos of you, don't tell you, and sell them to a tabloid? Is that a crime ? It depends on the photos and the circumstances of you taking them. If you had to trespass to get them than you have the (normally minor) crime of trespass (or if you have to break in to my house to get them you might be charged with burglary). Then there might be some state law about privacy, or if you took pornographic pictures you could possibly run afoul of obscenity laws (OTOH generally you would be considered to have first amendment protection, in this hypothetical I might have to be doing something pretty extreme for these protections not to apply). If you took the pictures when I would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, than its possible you could lose a lawsuit for damages (but that would only draw more attention to the hypothetical act I presumably want to keep secret). But whether or not its a crime, the point is it wouldn't be blackmail.