Is asking someone to take photos of houses illegal without permission?
<p>For private purposes, would it be illegal if someone asked/paid a person to take photos of the outside of houses and send them to the person from which the photos are never publicly advertised or used for any commercial/monetary purposes -- but no express consent of any kind is established.</p>

<p>Mind that this is only the outside front of houses and contains no other identifying information.</p>

<p>One reason this might be for is eventually considering uploading them for Google/public maps.</p>

<p>In the US it is legal to take pictures of the parts of a house that are visible from public property. By legal I mean that there is no law forbidding it but you might break some other laws while you are doing it.</p>

<p>The reason that I say "from public property" is that the homeowner has no reasonable expectation of privacy.</p>

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