Street Shootings: Covert Photography and Public Privacy—this Vanderbilt Law Review paper states that it should be possible for public "victims" to successfully sue offensive Street Photographers for "battery."

Street Shootings: Covert Photography and Public Privacy ... {TIL-X-post}

tl;dr: Just read Chaper IV—STREET SHOOTINGS AS BATTERY—page 24 (1154) on through to the conclusion.

According to a Vanderbilt University Law School 2010 Candidate for Doctor of Jurisprudence, most "Invasion of Privacy" lawsuits have been lost because the First Amendment trumps privacy laws when a Street Photographer takes an invasive photo in public; so, she is proposing "an expansion of the tort of battery to include offensive forms of street shootings." This takes on voyeurs, like upskirt photogs, first—but seems to imply broader applications.

Professor Clay Calvert observed, “Continuous review is necessary so that evolutions in technology do not . . . outstrip developments in the law of voyeurism.”

EdiT: Fixed tl:dr

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