Posting a blog about seeing people eat lunch

[norm21254]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NC

Is it against the law and consider stalking if someone posts in a blog where they are having lunch with some friends and then someone else posts a blog later saying they saw them and mentioned what 1 of them ate?

 

[Silverplum]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NC

Is it against the law and consider stalking if someone posts in a blog where they are having lunch with some friends and then someone else posts a blog later saying they saw them and mentioned what 1 of them ate?

People are so weird.

 

[proud_parent]

People are so weird.

...she says, licking the swiss cake crumbs from her fingers.

 

[Silverplum]

...she says, licking the swiss cake crumbs from her fingers.

I'm burning with jealousy! Mad, mad jealousy!!

 

[CSO286]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NC

Is it against the law and consider stalking if someone posts in a blog where they are having lunch with some friends and then someone else posts a blog later saying they saw them and mentioned what 1 of them ate?

I'd consider it creepy.

Not illegal, but creepy.

(assuming there isn't some kind of TRO between the blogger and one of lunchers....)

 

[The Occultist]

I don't even see why it's creepy; it was a public place, and the action was observed.

I've got a sneaking suspicion that there is more to the OP's story than what he posted, and he likely needs to share it before we can come up with anything near the accurate advice that he needs.

 

[Proserpina]

Goodness gracious me, if this kind of thing was illegal then People, US, Life & Style, Shyte and Briny, Hello, Star etc., would lose half of their weekly content!

And that's obviously not the case.

Restraining orders notwithstanding

 

[John_DFW]

Goodness gracious me, if this kind of thing was illegal then People, US, Life & Style, Shyte and Briny, Hello, Star etc., would lose half of their weekly content!

And that's obviously not the case.

Restraining orders notwithstanding

The expectation of privacy of the average person is different than that of public figures.

 

[OHRoadwarrior]

...she says, licking the swiss cake crumbs from her fingers.

TMI lol... I want to meet Her.

 

[cbg]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? NC

Is it against the law and consider stalking if someone posts in a blog where they are having lunch with some friends and then someone else posts a blog later saying they saw them and mentioned what 1 of them ate?

Based solely on what is posted here, no, it is neither against the law nor considered stalking.

If you want a more complete answer, you'll have to provide more facts.

 

[Sycophantastic]

...she says, licking the swiss cake crumbs from her fingers.

I think I might just have to blog about this

 

[Proserpina]

The expectation of privacy of the average person is different than that of public figures.

Stick around for a bit longer and you'll understand why I wrote what I did.

 

[AlexB18]

This is not stalking unless you live in la-la land... not to mention all of the above is done in PUBLIC where it's been well established that one has no reaosnable expectation of privacy.

If you had some reasonable expectation of privacy (own home, private room, etc)... you might have a complaint about invasion of privacy.

 

[quincy]

Shooting from the hip with your answers are you, Alex?

There are very few absolute answers in law. While in public a person generally gives up his right to privacy, this is not true in all cases. All facts and details are important for an accurate answer, as The Occulist indicated.

 

[AlexB18]

Shooting from the hip with your answers are you, Alex?

There are very few absolute answers in law. While in public a person generally gives up his right to privacy, this is not true in all cases. All facts and details are important for an accurate answer, as The Occulist indicated.

You got me... lol. That did sound a bit absolute... I meant there's a very good argument that it's in a public location and there probably wasn't a reasonable right to privacy. There's numerous websites that post pictures of "nonconsenting" people in public locations for various reasons.