Privacy in a public space?

[Liar]

There was a thread about this a while ago regarding CCTV cameras in Manhattan.

Here's another perspective. From, uh, below.

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Lawyer: Florida Man Who Took Photo Up Woman's Skirt Did Nothing Wrong

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

A lawyer for a Florida man who walked behind a woman and snapped a photo up her skirt with his cell phone says his client did nothing wrong.

Bradenton police charged Keith Wilson with a misdemeanor count of voyeurism.

There's no expectation of privacy in a public place, said William Price, Wilson's attorney.

"The question is not whether it's OK or not OK. The question is whether it's proscribed by the law," Price said.

Paul Hudson, an attorney and former prosecutor, said there is an expectation of privacy under a dress.

"People want to feel like they're safe going into stores and people not looking up their clothing, so I think it hits home to a lot of people," Hudson said.

 

[Belegon]

as someone who has experienced an uninvited transgression of exactly this sort, I feel that it should be defined as illegal... but I don't know how to enforce it, I must admit.

 

[ItReadsWell]

There's no expectation of privacy in a public place, said William Price, Wilson's attorney.

Exactly why I don't go around wearing a kilt.

 

[Liar]

as someone who has experienced an uninvited transgression of exactly this sort, I feel that it should be defined as illegal... but I don't know how to enforce it, I must admit.

Sexual harassment?

 

[Belegon]

Sexual harassment?

and how to cite someone who does it in a hotel lobby after having her friend flirt with you so that you back is to her? Someone you never saw before nor have seen since?

 

[reignophelia]

and how to cite someone who does it in a hotel lobby after having her friend flirt with you so that you back is to her? Someone you never saw before nor have seen since?

A quick glance done casually is much different than having someone angle their cell phone up my skirt, and then taking pictures for the whole world to see.

 

[3113]

I don't think the lawyer is going to get away with that song and dance. It's one thing if, as with the infamous Briteny photo, a woman is getting out of a car and someone snaps a picture of her as her skirt rides up and displays what's under it, it's quite another to stick a cellphone up a woman's dress.

One is a public if accidental (?) display for anyone who is looking to see (that is, you wear a skirt means you risk that it might ride up, and what you wear under it will be seen), the other is "private" (the skirt is down, what's under it is NOT on public display).

And the lawyer seems to be forgetting that there *are* peeping tom laws. Here's hoping they lock up the Peeping Tom AND his lawyer.

 

[S-Des]

And the lawyer seems to be forgetting that there *are* peeping tom laws. Here's hoping they lock up the Peeping Tom AND his lawyer.

Personally, I'd like this to become the law everywhere . . .

Campers tie man to tree for peeping into potty
01:39 PM PDT on Wednesday, August 22, 2007

On Saturday, a group of adults were camping at the Big Fan Campground near Bagby Hot Springs in Estacada when they spotted a man watching female campers defecating and urnating at an open latrine location in the camping area.

A 'posse' of campers captured the man as he tried to flee and brought him back to the campground where they tied him to a tree.

While tied to the tree, the man reportedly admitted that he'd been peeping at campground toilets for years as a sort of 'hobby'.