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Massachusetts Court Says 'Upskirt' Photos Are Legal
cold fjord writes with this CNN report: "Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday that it is not illegal to secretly photograph underneath a person's clothing — a practice known as "upskirting" — prompting one prosecutor to call for a revision of state law. The high court ruled that the practice did not violate the law because the women who were photographed while riding Boston public transportation were not nude or partially nude."
BRB got some photography to do.
The reaction to this will dwarf the reaction to all that NSA business. This is the pointless stuff that Americans really like to fight over.
"A female passenger on a MBTA trolley who is wearing a skirt, dress, or the like covering these parts of her body is not a person who is 'partially nude,' no matter what is or is not underneath the skirt by way of underwear or other clothing,"
Police soon noted an uprise in kilt-wearing flashers~
Just collecting publicly available photons...
No, It's time to put GoPro's on my shoes and head to Boston!
In C++, your friends can see your privates.
Maybe they have cameras in their shoes...
. . . please don't give Google any more ideas about where to mount their glasses . . .
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
They could print an EULA on their panties. "By photographing these panties you agree..."
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
A judge's job is to interpret the existing law, not make stuff up to conform to what the law should be....
I agree with that.
... that makes the legislature which write the laws .... OMG, PROGRAMERS! They're one of us!!
So judges are effectively a CPU, simply executing what's written. (GOTO but not DWIW.)
But then
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
people can wear skirts all they like, and choose how much or little they want to expose of themselves in public. if you re concerned about some out of focus dark weird angle shot of your panties, i'd suggest not wearing a skirt.
Yes, but don't we want to encourage the wearing of skirts? It's practically the only bright spot about taking public transportation.
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Oh noes - not a call for PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY!!! Say it isn't so, mister!
Skirts make an assumption that nobody will have a line-of-sight view from directly beneath you -- an assumption that was never entirely valid, but is a whole lot less valid now that technology has given people access to discreet digital cameras that they can easily position at floor level.
In some respects it's like circumventing DRM - an effort was made to conceal (wearing a skirt), but someone deliberately positioned themselves in a abnormal position closer to the floor in order to create a line-of-sight that would not generally be available through normal activity.
Sara
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