Is it illegal to take pictures of others?

Not necessarily. It's not necessarily illegal to shoot others casually. For the act of deliberately shooting, if the photo is not used without authorization after shooting, such as not being published in a circle of friends or spread in other places, or using or publicizing the portrait of the portrait owner by publishing, copying, distributing, renting, exhibiting, etc., it does not constitute infringement. Therefore, it can be judged that the other party has violated the right of portrait and privacy of the parties. As a civil right, the party concerned can ask him to delete the photos he took.

1. No organization or individual may commit the following acts:

1. Interfere with other people's private lives by telephone, SMS, instant messaging tools, e-mail, leaflets, etc.

2. Enter, take photos and peep into other people's private spaces such as houses and hotel rooms;

3. Shooting, peeping, eavesdropping and revealing other people's private activities;

4. Shooting and peeping at other people's private parts;

Second, how to identify the infringement of privacy:

1, invasion of privacy, first of all, invasion of privacy must be illegal;

2. The fact that privacy is violated is that privacy is a kind of information, an activity, a space field and a secret state. The damage to privacy is manifested in privacy being snooped, monitored, violated, published, disturbed and interfered;

3. Causality of invasion of privacy means that there is an inherent, inevitable and regular connection between the illegal act of invasion of privacy and the fact of privacy damage;

Legal basis: Article 10 19 of the Civil Code of People's Republic of China (PRC). No organization or individual may use information technology to deface, deface or forge others' portrait rights. No portrait shall be made, used or made public without the consent of the owner of the portrait, except as otherwise provided by law. Without the consent of the portrait owner, the portrait owner shall not use or disclose the portrait of the portrait owner by publishing, copying, distributing, renting or exhibiting.