Paparazzi = Stalkers

I never understood why photographers, otherwise known as the paparazzi, are allowed to stalk people. Just because they have an expensive camera in hand and a badge on them somehow gives them the right to blatantly follow and hunt high-profile people down. Media outlets such as tabloids and online magazines purchase these photographs. The photographer is profiting from someone else's likeness. Does this make it wrong? Why, in fact, it does! In the art world you have to have your subject sign a waiver for you to sell their image. There is this notion that if you are in the public you are welcomed to be photographed. While this may be true; I think the real fight for your rights is in challenging the photographer getting paid for his or her services/photography! Everybody should have control over their own likeness, this is why sometimes some people get blurred out of images! And by the way, stalking is already illegal!

"Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The term stalking is used with some differing definitions in psychiatry and psychology, as well as in some legal jurisdictions as a term for a criminal offense." Wikipedia