October 7, 2007
Videos of Madrid prostitutes and clients put on YouTube
A Spanish neighbourhood watch association hopes that the video-sharing website YouTube can help clean up their streets of the prostitution that they say the local government has done nothing to curb. [via The Guardian]
"The residents of Montera, one of the main shopping streets in the heart of Madrid, have posted 30 videos recorded on hand-held cameras of prostitutes and their pimps to show what they say is the regular street traffic they suffer night after night.
The videos appear to show prostitutes negotiating with clients and then going into a doorway that neighbours say is used as a brothel.
Hetaria, an association that defends the rights of prostitutes in Spain, has denounced the residents' actions for breaching the prostitutes' right to privacy. The Spanish Data Protection Agency has announced that it is investigating whether the recording of these videos breaks any privacy laws, especially now that the videos are available on the web. Residents could find themselves facing fines of up to €600,000 (£415,000)."
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