I am not as alarmist as some parents

But some parents are: to the point of publicly accusing people of being pedophiles and/or perverted because they happen to snap a photograph of their kid.

I’d like to point out (to Lisa V and Dawn) that it is NOT an invasion of privacy to have your picture taken from a public place (juveniles included) when there is not a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” While it’s icky to think that someone can “do with it what they will,” that’s the reality of modern society — the alternative is to never set foot into an area that can be viewed from a public place.

Obviously what Dawn is blogging about has some legal rights attached because it is unauthorized replication of a copyright work. But think for a second that if someone else snapped that photograph, from a public place, you would have zero legal standing to have it removed (from that forum for instance).