Very reassuring Ed. Your feedback on this topic is much appreciated !
Far too often we north Europeans are misleadingly told - when in Athens or Rome behave like a Graeco-Roman. Then, the following week, we later find out this specimen is now apparently behaving like us - as a north European. And always follows the law and why didn't we?
Ed: An interesting request from one of the more advanced countries of the world. But we must tread carefully.
Technically this man has the right to anonymity. Illegal photography is a crime here in Portugal and it is unlikely this man signed a 'release note for publication' or would have any idea the procedure exists. Identifying this man could lead to all sorts of repercussions.
All Portuguese are born with the right not to be identified if the Portuguese Police are looking for them for a crime - even if they have just escaped from prison. Or, as we all know, not a crime but such as a child going missing or a confused pensioner wandering away. Not even the family can publish that a search is on! Also not to be identified when interviewed at crime scenes on TV - at best filmed from the back or only hands and feet can be shown.
This being a fascinating leftover from the Salazar period so maybe the idea was pinched by the BBC's A Question of Sport when starting in 1968 for their Mystery Celebrity item?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1s9
Fortunately this organ is registered in the UK where the laws to which you refer do not apply.
Ed: An interesting request from one of the more advanced countries of the world. But we must tread carefully.
Technically this man has the right to anonymity. Illegal photography is a crime here in Portugal and it is unlikely this man signed a 'release note for publication' or would have any idea the procedure exists. Identifying this man could lead to all sorts of repercussions.
All Portuguese are born with the right not to be identified if the Portuguese Police are looking for them for a crime - even if they have just escaped from prison. Or, as we all know, not a crime but such as a child going missing or a confused pensioner wandering away. Not even the family can publish that a search is on! Also not to be identified when interviewed at crime scenes on TV - at best filmed from the back or only hands and feet can be shown.
This being a fascinating leftover from the Salazar period so maybe the idea was pinched by the BBC's A Question of Sport when starting in 1968 for their Mystery Celebrity item?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1s9
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A reader from the US has sent in this photograph of an Algarvian man taken around 33 years ago.
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Far too often we north Europeans are misleadingly told - when in Athens or Rome behave like a Graeco-Roman. Then, the following week, we later find out this specimen is now apparently behaving like us - as a north European. And always follows the law and why didn't we?
Fortunately this organ is registered in the UK where the laws to which you refer do not apply.
Technically this man has the right to anonymity. Illegal photography is a crime here in Portugal and it is unlikely this man signed a 'release note for publication' or would have any idea the procedure exists. Identifying this man could lead to all sorts of repercussions.
All Portuguese are born with the right not to be identified if the Portuguese Police are looking for them for a crime - even if they have just escaped from prison. Or, as we all know, not a crime but such as a child going missing or a confused pensioner wandering away. Not even the family can publish that a search is on! Also not to be identified when interviewed at crime scenes on TV - at best filmed from the back or only hands and feet can be shown.
This being a fascinating leftover from the Salazar period so maybe the idea was pinched by the BBC's A Question of Sport when starting in 1968 for their Mystery Celebrity item?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006t1s9