gwynne
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- Jan 1, 2012
Many buildings are accessible by code or key fob. Sometimes someone will follow a resident in. It happens.Maybe I'm wrong and it may vary by state, but my interpretation of the law is that if the building is locked, the common areas aren't public. They are common areas to the residents and their guests. PI doesn't sound like he was anybody's invited guest, and even if he had a friend living in the building, he couldn't use that as a convenient excuse to snap quite planned and intentional pictures of his friend's neighbor in her own doorway after he knocked on the door.
Privacy laws get much stricter inside someone else's private property uninvited.
The PI got a photo of both of them. Most of us agree the photo thing is creepy.
That said, I'm not sure OP wants to talk to the landlord about what happened when her boyfriend's wife hired a PI to snap a photo of them together.
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