Whether it is illegal to take pictures of others in public places depends on the situation;
1. It is illegal to take photos that infringe others' rights. If you shoot others without their consent, it is an infringement of others' rights and you need to bear corresponding legal responsibilities. Without the permission of the parties concerned, it will constitute an infringement of others' privacy if they secretly shoot and spread private information outside the public domain on the Internet. Anyone who peeks, takes pictures, eavesdrops or spreads others' privacy will be subject to administrative punishment. According to relevant regulations, he shall be detained for less than five days or fined for less than 500 yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for not less than five days but not more than ten days, and may also be fined not more than 500 yuan.
Violations of personal privacy include:
1. Make public the name, portrait, address, ID number and telephone number of citizens without their permission.
2, illegal intrusion, search other people's homes, or otherwise disrupt the peace of others.
3. Illegally stalking others, monitoring others' residences, installing eavesdropping equipment, secretly photographing others' private lives, and spying on others' indoor conditions.
4. Illegally spying on others' property status or publishing their property status without others' permission.
5. Privately open other people's letters, peek at other people's diaries, spy on other people's private documents and make them public.
6. Investigate and spy on other people's social relations to make them illegal.
7, interfere with other couples' sexual life or investigation.
8. Publicize other people's extramarital sex life to the public.
9, the disclosure of personal materials of citizens or open or expand the scope of disclosure.
10, collecting pure personal information that citizens are unwilling to disclose to the society.
1 1. Publicize other people's secrets without permission. If others do not disclose your information, it is not an invasion of privacy.
2. If the other party agrees, it is legal.
I hope the above content can help you. Please consult a professional lawyer if you have any other questions.
Legal basis: Article 10 18 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC).
Natural persons have the right to portrait, and have the right to make, use, make public or permit others to use their own portraits according to law. Portrait is the external image of a specific natural person that can be recognized on a certain carrier through images, sculptures, paintings, etc.
Article 1032
Natural persons have the right to privacy. No organization or individual may infringe upon the privacy rights of others by spying, harassing, exposing or making public.
Privacy is the private space, private activities and private information that natural people live in peace and don't want to be known by others.
Article 1033
Unless otherwise provided by law or expressly agreed by the obligee, no organization or individual may commit the following acts:
(a) by telephone, SMS, instant messaging tools, e-mail, leaflets, etc. Disturb the private life of others;
(2) Entering, taking photos or peeping into other people's private spaces such as houses and hotel rooms;
(3) Shooting, peeping, eavesdropping or revealing other people's private activities;
(4) Shooting or peeping at the private parts of others' bodies;
(5) handling other people's private information;
(6) Infringe upon the privacy of others in other ways.
Article 42 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment commits one of the following acts, and shall be detained for less than five days or fined less than five hundred yuan; If the circumstances are serious, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days, and may be fined up to five hundred yuan:
(1) writing threatening letters or threatening the personal safety of others by other means;
(2) publicly insulting others or fabricating facts to slander others;
(3) fabricating facts, falsely accusing and framing others, and attempting to subject others to criminal investigation or public security administration punishment;
(4) Threatening, insulting, beating or retaliating against witnesses and their close relatives;
(5) sending obscene, insulting, intimidating or other information for many times to interfere with the normal life of others;
(six) voyeurism, sneak shots, eavesdropping, spreading the privacy of others.