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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:12 PM
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News You Can Use: US to ban up-skirt voyeur photos
The US moved closer today to banning so-called "up-skirt" photography, under the proposed Video Voyeurism Prevention Act.

The bill specifically bans deliberately taking pictures of an unconsenting "individual's naked or undergarment clad genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or female breast...under circumstances in which that individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding such body part or parts".
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/13/us_bans_knicker_shots/

Just thought you'd want to know.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:15 PM
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1. This would kill all the Britney Crotch-Shots you see on The Superficial
Damn!
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tk2kewl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:39 PM
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6. If the goods are uncoverded, and the legs are spread...
does that individual really have "a reasonable expectation of privacy regarding such body part or parts"?

:shrug:
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:18 PM
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2. So how is Paris suppposed to get attention?
And sheesh... Some people are smart enough to understand that such things are "unwritten laws". Others are just opportunists and don't care about others' rights.
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matcom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:20 PM
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3. but Alberto Gonzalez told me upskirts of Rosie O'Donell were essential to national security!
I plead executive privelage
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JustABozoOnThisBus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:31 PM
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4. The article in the link is over three years old
Is it a law yet?

How's that "expectation of privacy" stuff doing?

:rofl:
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muriel_volestrangler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 06:19 PM
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9. Became law Dec 2004
12/23/2004 Became Public Law No: 108-495 : http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN01301:@@@L&summ2=m&
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SKKY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:32 PM
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5. Awwww for fuck's sake...
...can't a man enjoy a little perversion once in a while??? :shrug:
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:40 PM
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7. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Now i am out of business :mad: :sarcasm:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 05:53 PM
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8. Goddamit! I just got my loafers back from the chrome shop
x(
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Throwing Stones Donating Member (730 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-11-07 08:08 PM
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10. In related news
President Bush announced today that he and all members of the executive branch (of which, incidentally, he was not part of last week) will no longer wear clothes but will fully expect their privacy to be respected under the new law. Accordingly, neither photographers, reporters, members of Congress or the general public will be allowed to be near, let alone question any Bush appointee, thus banning any deliberate attempt to ascertain any facts whatsoever until the end of his term.
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