Is filming someone in the street a breach of privacy?

[Kristijntje]

A 40-year-old woman is suing a Croatian TV station after it filmed her in public and then featured her in a documentary about obesity. Gordana Knezic was shopping in Zagreb and did not know that she was being filmed, Ananova reports.

A privacy expert said that in the UK only some photographs taken in public are subject to legal controls.

"I was absolutely staggered when I turned on the TV to see myself in a film about fat people," said Knezic, who is suing TV station HTV for £10,000. "I want to show that attacks on human dignity like this cannot be tolerated," she said....

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/10/privacy_breach/