[raybbr]

Trolley riders alerted MBTA Transit Police in August 2010 that a man appeared to be taking photographs of women, including one instance in which he appeared to be attempting to photograph a woman’s crotch area, the court said. Transit Police set up a decoy operation the next day involving a female undercover officer wearing a skirt. Robertson allegedly took pictures of her, focusing on her crotch area, and he was arrested, the court said.

Says nothing about cameras on his shoes.

If you are in a public place you can expect no right to privacy. That's been settled many times by the courts.

[Pecos]

Are you saying that you’d be OK if some guy did that to your wife or daughter?

[Black Agnes]

I was just telling you that this wasn’t a case where women were sitting immodestly and ‘everyone’ could see their panties.

It’s a case where women are simply walking on a public street and the perp is upskirting them. By using a camera on his shoes. Or pretending to drop something and using his cell phone to take a picture up their skirts. Could easily happen to your wife or daughter too if they wear skirts. May already have.

http://www.salon.com/2008/11/25/upskirting/

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/man-took-upskirt-pictures-of-women-with-shoe-camera-1-5183972

etc.

What this ruling means is that I, as a parent, can no longer permit my elementary aged daughters to wear skirts in public. Unless they’re wearing pants or jeans underneath.

If you want to understand what this is really about, do a search on ‘upskirt’. In the future, only immodest women who wish to have their privates photographed and posted on porn sites will wear skirts. Modest women will wear shalwar khameez.