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Anonymous
Most first world nations the rules are basically:
anything you can see from a public area, you are allowed to take pictures of, within reason,
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every person is entitled to a reasonable expectation of privacy.
So standing on a public street in a city and taking pictures of building: 100% legal. They can't even make you stop or surrender your film/card/camera.
Exceptions to this rule may include airports, shipyards, military bases, gas/oil terminals, bridges, etc. In australia you are probably more free than us in north america regarding things like bridges.
As to the second, if a person is somewhere they expect to have privacy, you can be in trouble for photographing them even from public area. Eg standing in the street and shooting in their open window. Technically legal one way, but they expect to have privacy indoors.
Oh, and one more thing: Unless the person hassling you is police or military, you don't have to do shit for them. Building security and rent-a-cops cannot force you to surrender film, show ID or even give your name. If you're on their property (in a mall etc) they could make you leave, but that's it.
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