On Mar 2, 2018, at 12:09 AM, Toerless Eckert <tte@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Photographing people who don't want to be photographed can start to feel like harassment. Having a policy is a way to communicate that. The IESG hosts meetings; one of their roles is to set policies for acceptable behavior at those meetings. Requesting that people not photograph those they don't have permission to photograph seems like asking for basic human decency; providing a way to clearly signal that such photography is unwanted is a kindness. We live in a surveillance society. Photos that you take have larger implications than just that you have the photo. Even that would be enough, if someone didn't want you to have the photo, but it seems really clear to me that things _have_ changed over the past 35 years, and that this new policy is overdue. So thanks to the IESG for doing this! |
