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Court Rules That Secretly Filming A Woman’s Up Skirt And Thighs in Public is LEGAL in United States

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That’s creepy but then the law says it’s legal and we have to deal with it while the perverts jump up the sky in excitement.
A US court has ruled it is legal to film up a woman’s skirt without her consent due to a loophole in the existing law surrounding invasion of privacy.
According to Atlanta Journal Constitution, a Georgia court on 15 July reversed a convicting against Brandon Lee Gary who was prosecuted in 2013 on a single count of “unlawful eavesdropping and surveillance” after he was caught several times on CCTV footage taking video recordings with a mobile phone beneath the skirt of a customer while she was shopping at a place he worked.
Gary was prosecuted and sentenced under Georgia’s Invasion of Privacy Act, which states that it is illegal to photograph or film the activities of another person without consent when they occur “in any private place and out of public view”.
Now, Gary’s attorney has successfully argued that, the key phrase is “in any private place and out of public view”—and reasonably, a shopping mall is not a private place or out of public view. 
Bingo, Gary won despite a lower court ruling that Gary’s conduct was “patently offensive” and that “a woman walking and shopping in a public place has a reasonable expectation of privacy on the area of her body concealed by her clothing”.
In Court of Appeal documents published by US news site Patch, Judge Elizabeth Branch stated: “The question before this court, however is not whether the defendant’s conduct was offensive; it is not whether a person walking in a public place has a reasonable expectation of privacy as to certain areas of her body; and it is not whether the victim’s privacy was violated. Rather, the only issue presented by this appeal is whether the defendant’ s conduct constitutes a criminal invasion of privacy”
“[I]t is regrettable that no law currently exists which criminalizes Gary’s reprehensible conduct,” she said.
And she recognised the problem, saying, “Unfortunately, there is a gap in Georgia’s criminal statutory scheme, in that our law does not reach all of the disturbing conduct that has been made possible by ever-advancing technology.”
 



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