Wow QC I think you need to relax a bit.
The document Domenico posted is a useful guideline and something that may be helpful when people try to keep you from shooting. A fact of life is that when you are out in public you may photograph people or be photographed. You may find this to be obnoxious and try to make your point seem more valid and important by raising the temperature of your post and by using phrases such as "putting a camera in people's faces", "whimpering" and "Grow up already." Few photographers put their camera in people's faces, no one is whimpering and the other bit I'll leave alone as I don't think I need to state the obvious.
I guess if we lived in a perfectly civilized (numb?) world we'd just let the CCTV record the events of the day, but we don't so we have laws that try to strike a balance. In this instance I guess you are further from the fulcrum than some.
The document Domenico posted is a useful guideline and something that may be helpful when people try to keep you from shooting. A fact of life is that when you are out in public you may photograph people or be photographed. You may find this to be obnoxious and try to make your point seem more valid and important by raising the temperature of your post and by using phrases such as "putting a camera in people's faces", "whimpering" and "Grow up already." Few photographers put their camera in people's faces, no one is whimpering and the other bit I'll leave alone as I don't think I need to state the obvious.
I guess if we lived in a perfectly civilized (numb?) world we'd just let the CCTV record the events of the day, but we don't so we have laws that try to strike a balance. In this instance I guess you are further from the fulcrum than some.