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Can you say the word "Neanderthal"?
Why has this thread risen from the dead?
Massachusetts court says 'upskirt' photos are legal - CNN.com
WHAT???? How can upskirt photo taking NOT be an invasion of privacy?????
Can you say the word "Neanderthal"?
If you are in public then you have ZERO expectation of privacy...
bull****, man hater. just look at the commercial on tv. 95 % of them are woman based
I think if it is allowed to be legal, so should any target of said photography kicking the balls of the photographer up his throat be allowed as well
Dude, I have two daughters and if I saw a guy doing that he and I would have a serious disagreement and at the very least his camera would accidentally be broken.
There are a lot of words I could say but it would get me banned. I think this one needs to be moved.
maybe the nasty Nikon Suppository?
Can you say the word "Neanderthal"?
If you are in public then you have ZERO expectation of privacy...
As I said much earlier in this thread, it seems clear to me that there's some grey territory here.
As a general rule, if you are in public, you have a right to photograph anything and anyone that is readily visible to you. This would include a woman who is being careless about whether her skirt covers what it is supposed to cover. There is no right to privacy over what one puts into public view.
It may be very creepy and ill-mannered to take pictures of women whose skirts are not under proper control, but I can think of no valid basis for it to be illegal.
That said, I think there is a very clear expectation of privacy if the skirt is covering what it is supposed to cover, and one can only access a view underneath by resorting to a specific effort to do so. Some guy making a specific effort to position a camera in order to get a view under someone's skirt that is not readily visible by normal means is crossing the line, and I have no problem at all with that being illegal, and possibly even treated as a sexual assault.
I think that upskirt photography should be illegal... I was simply arguing that it isn't as of yet.
In the United States, the general principle that you can photograph anything or anyone that is readily in public view is based on the First Amendment's protection of freedom of the press. Where a woman carelessly or intentionally fails to keep her skirt in proper place, exposing things to public view that perhaps ought not be so exposed, it really isn't possible to legislate against a right to photograph the resulting view, without running afoul of the First Amendment.
This is, of course, entirely different from someone making a specific effort to position a camera in order to gain a view up someone's skirt that is not readily visible without such an effort. In this case, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, and there is an unreasonable intentional effort to violate that expectation.
I bet you wouldn't be... go ahead and say them.
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