Anotheoldgit you asked 'Why????? I just cannot understand why people are getting so upset over such a trivial thing. Would they get upset if they were selling their house and the estate agent took a picture of their house, then had it displayed in their high-street window, in their leaflets, in the local press, on the web etc etc?'
Of course they wouldn't be upset because they would have instructed them to do it, and once it (i.e. the sale or whatever) had been done the publicity would be removed.
Anyone who wants to can walk past me in the street and look at me. They will have to take a different stance if they want to take my pic and especially if they then also want to publish it somewhere.
Why should my property be any different?
Are we really so used to our privacy being invaded, and people inviting the public into their lives via real-TV type programmes, that we no longer think objections such as mine are strange?