PRIVACY, ends at your front door.
You are profoundly and densely stupid. So stupid that my head hurts just trying to comprehend the sheer ignorance and stupidity of what you've just posted.
PRIVACY ends at your front door?
Seriously, are you aware that all Western democracies have
privacy laws? Furthermore, are you aware of the fact that many of these laws extend beyond the confines of your home... beyond you front door, as it were? For example, do you think that you have no legal recourse if a fat, naked man runs up to your children and takes a picture of them at a public pool? By your logic, no, since you forfeited your right to privacy once you left your home. In reality, of course you can take legal action. In Canada, it's an indictable offence under the Criminal Code (
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/ ), and unless you live in some third world country, it'll be illegal in your jurisdiction too. Ever heard of a photographer's release form? People can't just walk up to you in public, take your picture, then post it in the media without obtaining your consent. If they do so, they open themselves up to any number of lawsuits.
Of course, you must be right that the
internet is a free-for-all zone of privacy infringement, right? Wrong again, you fukking ignoramus. In the European Union, it's illegal to publish "embarrassing pictures of people without their consent" (
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/27/eu_internet_privacy_laws_tightened/ )...
...oh, but what about privacy laws in the United States? A cursory Google search reveals that indeed, if you violate someone's privacy in an inflammatory fashion, you can be held responsible for defamation by the affected individual and sued accordingly. Additionally, all sorts of private information is protected on the internet (SIN#, financial information etc.).
So next time you want to make retarded statements like "privacy... it ends at your front door", why don't you think long and hard about it, and STFU to spare the rest of us from your blinding idiocy.