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Can I call the police if someone takes a photo of me?

You can call the police if you are photographed by others. The analysis is as follows:

1. The law stipulates that peeping, eavesdropping, and spreading other people's privacy are illegal acts that violate public security management, and the public security organs will impose security penalties according to the specific circumstances;

2. Secret photography Others have violated the following rights of citizens: right to privacy, secretly photographing and disseminating private information beyond the public domain on the Internet without the permission of the person concerned does constitute an infringement of other people's privacy rights; right of portrait, whether the act of secretly photographing is Infringement of a citizen's portrait rights also needs to be considered based on whether the person's consent is obtained and whether the secretly photographed portrait is used for profit.

Citizens’ right to privacy includes:

1. The right to freedom of personal life. The subject of the right can engage or not engage in something that has nothing to do with the interests of the public or is harmless according to his own will. Activities are not subject to interference, destruction or control by others;

2. The right to confidentiality of information, personal life information, including all personal information and materials. Such as height, weight, female measurements, medical records, physical defects, health status, life experience, property status, marriage and love, family, social relationships, hobbies, beliefs, psychological characteristics, etc.;

3. Personal communication secrets Rights holders have the right to keep the contents of personal letters, telegrams, phone calls, faxes and discussions confidential and prohibit others from illegally eavesdropping or stealing. The development of the privacy system is to a large extent linked to the development of modern communications. The rapid development of information processing and transmission technology allows the content of personal communications to be easily eavesdropped or stolen. Therefore, the security of personal communications is ensured. It has become an important part of the right to privacy;

4. The right to use personal privacy. Rights subjects have the right to use their privacy according to their own will in accordance with the law to engage in various activities that meet their own needs. Such as using personal life information to write an autobiography, using one's own image or body for painting or photography needs, etc.

In summary, you can report to the police if you are photographed by others. The law stipulates that peeping, eavesdropping, and spreading other people's privacy are illegal acts that violate public security management, and the public security organs will impose security penalties according to the specific circumstances. If the violation is particularly minor, the penalty may be reduced or no penalty may be imposed.

Legal basis:

Article 42 of the "Public Security Administration Punishment Law of the People's Republic of China"

Whoever commits any of the following acts shall be punished Detention for not more than five days or a fine of not more than five hundred yuan; if the circumstances are more serious, he shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than five hundred yuan:

1. Writing threatening letters or other methods Threatening the personal safety of others;

2. Blatantly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;

3. Fabricating facts to frame others in an attempt to subject others to criminal prosecution or public security management Punishment;

4. Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;

5. Repeatedly sending obscene, insulting, threatening or other messages, Interfering with the normal life of others;

6. Peeping, secretly filming, eavesdropping, and spreading other people's privacy.