it can happen to you.
Posted on 06/11/2015 9:41:30 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Short Pump Ping.
There’s a really fine line and it’s not one that anyone really wants to go to war over.
On the one hand, no, you don’t have any right to privacy in public. People can take your photo on the street and use it for art or editorial purpose, but if they wanted to use it as advertising, they would have to have a signed license.
Street photography has a long history and has provided us with some wonderful shots of daily life.
Nobody can take a photo in public of something that you aren’t displaying, and if you’re displaying yourself in a way that your underwear is visible, then it’s no crime to take a photo of that.
Now going out of the way to see what is normally not visible is certainly creepy, and we have laws for peeping toms, and I don’t think taping a GoPro to your shoe and going on the subway should be something a person should do, but if there are small cameras and public places, if you don’t want your bits photographed, then cover them up.
You may be thinking of a recent case in Massachusetts, where the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court overturned an upskirt photographer's conviction under the state's Peeping Tom laws, because the laws were written in such a way that upskirt photos didn't fall within any of the specific provisions. It wasn't necessarily about a reasonable expectation of privacy, it was that the law specifically applied only in certain locations (dressing rooms, people's own houses, etc.) or when someone was nude or "partially nude." It was a bad result (obviously these creeps should be stopped), but probably the right decision under the law.
The Massachusetts legslature and governor fixed the law within a day or two of the court's decision.
I had a HS Coach/History teacher who arranged the desks on three walls facing inward. It was obvious what he was up to so I went to the principal. Of course, the principal did nothing.
Well I guess now I must confess, in junior high we had a really hot German teacher that wore short skirts, us guys were accidently dropping trash all the time so she would pick it up. Funny though, when my daughter was around thirteen and some pervert would start staring lewdly I had no problem confronting them in the middle of a mall. I guess unlike most of us that learn proper and improper behaviour there will always be some that need to have it beaten into them.
Yes. This crap. Plushies.
People using their phones to be porn stars.
In the past people didnt have extra energy to be bored with. Too busy doing necessary work.
it can happen to you.
He would have never stood straight up. His camera would have been under heel.
I see this has not yet been posted on People of Wal-Mart.
I think this sort of crap is pretty TAME for the People of Walmart.
This is the thinnest woman to ever enter a Walmart!
Husband, father to teenage daughters, good neighbor for 19 years.
Threw it all away being a perv. What an idiot.
Crunch....”Sorry, was that your phone? Didn’t see it there....”
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