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However, Tate got the permission to build the viewing deck before the apartments were built.
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How can privacy be egregiously violated? Isn’t it just you have a window to look in or not? And every building has windows to look in if you choose to not draw the blinds?
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If I secretly hide a camera in your bedroom, would the violation of privacy be made more egregious if I then went ahead and broadcast that footage on TV?

>Isn’t it just you have a window to look in or not? And every building has windows to look in if you choose to not draw the blinds?

For example, there would be a pretty big difference between my neighbour being able to see into my apartment and my neighbour organising tour groups to look into my apartment.

I don't mind my neighbour, it is reasonable to expect that my neighbours will be able to see into my apartment. I however could not reasonably expect that my neighbours would host some sort of organised viewing activity on a regular basis.

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Isn't it on the individuals occupying the apartment to use curtains of some sort if they don't want to be seen? Unless I'm missing context the museum didn't organize tour groups to specially look into the apartments
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> Isn't it on the individuals occupying the apartment to use curtains of some sort if they don't want to be seen?

Sure, but the problem here was explicitly not the individuals occupying the apartments being seen.

>Unless I'm missing context the museum didn't organize tour groups to specially look into the apartments

From the court ruling: "Visitors in the viewing gallery frequently look into the claimants' flats and take photographs, and less frequently view the claimants and their flats with binoculars."

"Photographs of the flats are posted on social media by visitors. On the platform Instagram there were 124 posts in the period between June 2016 and April 2018"

I do not think it's acceptable to subject anyone to this, be they rich or poor.

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Well maybe don’t live in a city if you don’t want people to see in your house? I mean seriously floor to ceiling windows.. what the f do you expect?
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I don't mind people seeing into my flat. I would very much mind the specific, egregious behaviour described in the court case.
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Actually, sounds like they had a much better solution than moving out of the city: they appealed to a judge, who agreed with them. Sounds like you’re the one out of step with reality here.
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Curtains were invented several hundred years ago because of this issue.
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I didn't know they had instagram and smartphones back then, those were key elements here.
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