November 10, 2004
Three years in jail for candid camera photos
New Zealand has plans to introduce a three-year jail sentence on anyone to capture an intimate photograph of someone without their knowledge. Justice Minister Phil Goff announced, the law to be passed in 2005, specifically entails any offence to record intimate situations involving nudity, partial nudity or any other type of sexual intimacy. [via Mobilemag]
Related:
-- Law May Curb Cell Phone Camera Use - Cell phone camera voyeurism will soon be a federal offense if the Video Voyeurism Prevention Act of 2004 continues its nearly unopposed march through Congress.
-- Canadian sentenced for posting pictures taken with cameraphone - In the first sentencing in Canada involving a camera phone crime, a 20 year-old man was sentenced to 6 months in jail for posting pornographic pictures of his 17 year-old girlfriend on the Internet.
-- A year in jail for using a cameraphone in court - A British man sentenced to 12 months in jail for using his cameraphone to take a photograph of a man in the dock, alongside security officers and a prosecution witness giving evidence, has lost his appeal.
-- amera-phone voyeur faces jail sentence in Hong Kong - A high-tech "peeping Tom" faces jail in Hong Kong for using his cellphone camera to take a picture up a woman's skirt.
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