Another blow for perverts everywhere

That will stop Aussies- a.k.a. Ameteur perverts, but Italy > Australia :lol:

its says you need to register to read the article...... I tried the skip registering option, but it didnt work. could you post the article here?

The use of mobile phone cameras to take peeping tom photos that can be posted on the internet has prompted a call for tighter regulations and clearer guidelines for consumers.

The Australian Computer Society, which represents more than 16,000 IT professionals, will ask phone manufacturers to do more to alert consumers to changes in the law and to discourage rogue users from taking photos up women's skirts. Known as "upskirting", the practice is becoming increasingly prevalent.

The call comes just weeks after a tough new law to prevent peeping toms from taking such photos came into force in NSW.

Anyone found to have taken a photo or filmed someone without their consent in a state of undress or engaged in a private act such as bathing or having sex faces two years in jail. Manufacturers Samsung and Sony Ericsson are considering putting information on phone packs to alert people to the change.

A policy document by the Computer Society will call for the Federal Government to form a working party to investigate privacy concerns over the growing abuse of mobile phone cameras.

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There are about 1.5 million camera phones in Australia and this number is expected to double by the end of the year.

"Greater efforts need to be made to educate phone purchasers, corporations and members of the public about the protocols of camera phone use and abuse and about the existing prohibitions on peeping and prying," the document says.

The society will write to the Attorney-General, Philip Ruddock, and the Federal Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim, this week.

Damn. No more fun for -Davo

Glad I don't live in Australia :p.

Actually, I don't care cuz I don't have a camera phone to begin with.

^:1:

they don't allow camera phones in the tech center here, so I dont have one or want one either

Yeah, what ever happened to the original use of a phone! I believe it was used to TALK TO PEOPLE!! Now everyone has all these ridiculous gadgets on their phones. Not me! My phone is only for calls!

Damn kids and their technology!! :biggrin: :biggrin:

There was a guy that was caught red handed and arrested at a mall about 30 minutes from my apartment about a month ago. Damn sicko's.

Good law with a good punishment

i dont know why people do that kinda crap. porn is free on the internet. geez...

I'm only interested in the panty shots...wish I could do away with this cover-blowing "phone" function altogether...goddamned people always ring when I'm trying to get a good peep going...

I'm only interested in the panty shots...wish I could do away with this cover-blowing "phone" function altogether...goddamned people always ring when I'm trying to get a good peep going...

You're kidding, right...........

i don't even have a cell phone.....:disappoin

You're kidding, right...........

God, I hope so :biggrin:

You're kidding, right...........


i don't know, you can never tell with him :uhoh:

Thats the thing about sarcasm...it doesn't always quite work when you're typing. :smile: If it sets your mind at ease, I'm being sarcastic 99% of the time. The other 1% I'm taking a bathroom break, mebbe grabbing a little snack...nothing like a really fresh nectarine, you know?

EDIT: "Bathroom break" is code for "Snapping nudie photos with my camera phone". Shhhhh. :biggrin:

Another "blow" for perverts everywhere

actually, with a couple of quotation marks, the title is funnier than the article.

Another "blow" for perverts everywhere

actually, with a couple of quotation marks, the title is funnier than the article.
Yes, the pun was intended. :p

They ought to castrate them when caught. Boy, that would be ironic to the dumbass snapping the pics.

My phone is only for calls! AGREE 100%

People just have way TOOO MUCH time on their hands...

Never wanted to understand the pyschological make-up of a perv. Damn, guess I should of skipped all those pysch & Soc classes.. Damn brain functions. :screwy: Damn society as a whole system. :nono:

Damn illness. :eek7: Damn.. :eek:

Keep them there. We have enough in the states already.